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- 1933-06-07 - 1933-06-08 (Creation)
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Notes plans to go to Nagartse via Yamdrok Tso and hopes for work east of Bumthang, with Tibet possibly late for butterflies and flowers. Records weather, colour photography of flowers, scenes in the Ha valley, and a visit to Ha from Damthang including riding Tobgye’s ponies, playing football, and tea with the Zimpon.
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Report on B.B.:- Very good throughout.
the Yamdrok Tso, as we will go to Nagartse. This news has cheered us up a lot. If we can now get 6 weeks in the area E. of Bumthang, we will be getting all the collections we have time to work this year. Tibet in fact may be too late for either butterflies or flowers, but we should get some seeds, & at any rate see what the birds are there.
7th June. Another day with a little sun, & fine all morning. Took some photos in colour of flowers in Coventry's contraption. They have turned out fairly well, but drying ordinary negatives is a difficult business, as in this damp climate they take more than 24 hours, sometimes as much as 48.
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Views of villages in Ha valley bet. Damthang & Ha. Yaks at Damthang leaving for their summer pastures. B.G. A Bhutanese with a yak load with two children. Bhutanese women.
10th June. Damthang. Three good days with very little rain & a fair amount of sun. On 8th went to Ha, riding Tobgye's ponies, for lunch & tea with Tobgye. After lunch played football with the boys, a hard job at that height with heavy clothes & boots on. Some of them play pretty well. After football had tea with the Zimpon - Tobgye's lama, an old family lama of the good type. He seemed a very decent
