Part 23 - Diary entries for 7–10 Dec: Camp to Orang Gacha, Lilung, and Yusum

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SUMMARY:
Travel continues through forested valleys with slow bullocks and difficult terrain en route to Orang Gacha, Lilung, and Yusum. Local authorities arranged supplies and transport, including 17 mules to Tse, and a Gacha Nyingba showed a fragment from a crashed plane marked with a directional gyro indicator from Jack and Heintz Inc., Bedford, Ohio. The party notes ample fuel, improving scenery, and the first low-elevation spruce after Simbiteng.

CONTENT:
...one from Luongrong to the pine forest. A good camp.

7th Dec. Camp. We should have reached Gacha today but could not make it. Bullocks took 3 hours for the first mile. We left at 8.0 and got in at 5.0pm. Bullocks very tired. Good camp and now ample fuel everywhere. There is forest right down to the river, pine, birch and dense shrub, through which a good deal of today's march was made.

8th Dec. Orang Gacha. Left at 8.0. In at 11.30. Bullocks again very slow; one cliff face to pass. All arrangements here are very good. Orang belongs to Shatra, who had warned his changzo to look after us. Gacha is Lhalu's, who also had warned her people. So we got nearly all we wanted, including 17 mules to Tse at 17 sangs the trip — which saves us. Very cold at night. The Gacha Nyingba had a small piece of the Langong crashed plane. It is a cover of aluminium on which is written Directional Gyro Indicator. AN 5735-1 P/N Part No JH 6500 Contract No W 535 AC. Jack and Heintz Inc. Bedford, Ohio. Inside is JH 5510 JAHCO. The size is about 4" x 4".

9th Dec. Lilung. Fine, but clouding over, with a wind up valley in the afternoon. Left at 8.45, in at 3.0pm. Our bullocks left at 5.0 and got in about 2.0. Mules and ponies left 10.0; in 4.0. Road over sand in many places, but not difficult. There is also a lot of shrub which tore our loads badly. Met at Kyarden by villagers with chang and milk.

10th Dec. Yusum. Again bullocks left at 5.0 and got in about 2.0pm. We left at 8 and got in at 3.0. A good march through forest for most of the way. Just after Simbiteng (mq) we passed the first spruce to be seen down so low. Pine forest in many parts. The valley is forested thickly on both sides, and altogether a pleasant change has taken place. As the scenery becomes more beautiful, the villages more...