Part 8 - Gyantse logistics, currency exchange, and route payments

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SUMMARY:
Records transport hire rates and payments for donkeys and ponies between Gyantse and points along the route, including a Rs 70 bribe to the Gyantse headman reportedly instigated by Samdup’s statement about rates. Notes exchanging Rs 10,000 through Sadutshang in Gyantse for 33,000 sangs tied to cotton cloth sales in Lhasa, and mentions seed collection.

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Paid from Gyantse at the rate of 6 sangs per pony - riding or pack, and 3 sangs per donkey. Our transport requirements were approx. 36 donkeys & 24 ponies or mules.

Changed Rs 10000/- through Sadutshang in Gyantse for 33,000 sangs all in 100 sang notes. This was in exchange for Rs 10000/- I paid Sadutshang's friends to buy cotton cloth to sell at Lhasa on my behalf. The cloth has not yet been sold. When it is, I expect to have a further sum paid to me, representing 50% of the profit due.

Pd. Gyantse to Nangartse sangs 738 for 36 donkeys & 23 ponies. We also had to pay Rs 70 bribe to the headman at Gyantse, whom Samdup had apparently told that our lamyig mentioned sangs 12 & 6 as the rate to be paid.

At Gobshi paid sangs 20

• Nangartse " " 30

Nangartse to Pede paid sangs 378 for 1 1/2 days march.
At Khamba Trombo pd " 213 - 1 - - Tramalung to K. Trombo.
Paid for kowas sangs 35 each from K. Trombo to Gongkar Dz.

Seed collected of In