Part 81 - Halt at Dyuri with local assistance, photography, and notes on supplies and security

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SUMMARY:
The party halts at Dyuri, noting cool springs, poor grazing except higher up, and very small villages with limited supplies such as eggs, butter, and yak milk. A fair day is spent photographing helpful locals and carrying out tasks like drying birds and plants, while learning that potatoes are secretly grown in the jungle due to fear of Darrang people and that houses lack windows because of fear of Lopas (Abors) from the Dirang direction.

CONTENT:
emerges from under a rock. There are several springs, some of which are quite cool. Grazing poor, except high up the hillside. Supplies - no grain of any kind or vegetables grown. Some hens and eggs available, and butter and milk from the herds of yaks kept. Both villages are very small consisting of about 15 houses. People pleasant, more like Takpas than Tibetans //.

Lists.
Museum - half day.
Drying birds and plants.
Photography,
developing,
writing letters and a
multitude of little things.

24th July. Halt at Dyuri. A fair day: clouded nearly all day, but little rain. The locals are a good crowd, and are being very helpful. I took photos of some of them today, and amused them greatly by letting them look at each other, upside down in the ground glass. Also took a color photo of a woman with all her beads on.

Potatoes.
It seems there are potatoes to be had here, but they are grown in the jungle, hidden away from the Darrang people, whom they fear. Gooseberries are to be had everywhere, and form a very pleasant change. These people here are very frightened of the Lopas, the Abors from Dirang direction. We asked them why they had no windows in their house. All are quite dark inside. Their answer was that when the Lopas came here, they went into their houses, as if