Part 115 - Halt at Charme with Bhutanese patronage notes, Lumsden’s medical mishap, and field observations

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SUMMARY:
Notes mention fruit drying in Charme and Bhutanese support to Sangacholing, including a Bhutan lama. Lumsden is withdrawn and his night-time injection missed a vein, causing his patient fever. On a halt day at Charme, the diarist walked toward Dayul, observed migrant birds from the north, shot a Button quail at notable elevation, and collected seeds (crab apple, jasmine, cotoneaster).

CONTENT:
L.S. 188 Peaches were ripe in Charme. Many stacks of them lay on the flat roofs of the houses, drying in the sun; walnuts are also ripe. 170

Nang Drug and Chindrug, the Maharaja of Bhutan sends a lot of money and presents to Sangacholing. He also supports a Bhutan lama who lives up the valley a short way. That lama sticks to religion, whereas the S.C. ones most certainly do not.

Lumsden still very un-gay today, will hardly talk a word to anyone. He gave another injection in his woman patient's arm the other night, and again waited till dark to do it. The result was he missed the vein and the woman had fever and a rotten time for a night and a day.

28th September. Halt. Charme. A fine day, but clouded over a good deal. Went downstream to the first village of Dayul, along a good path. There are a good many migrant birds about now, saw for a pipit which is on its way down from Siberia, also a swallow from the north. I shot a small Button quail too - Turnix suscitator suscitator, which does not seem to be recorded above 6000' previously. Collected a few odd seeds too - a crab apple, Creut tibetica, a jasmine and a cotoneaster 2709, which I had collected before in flower, when it looks nothing at all. But now its branches are covered with a mass of scarlet berries and it really is a