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SUMMARY:
The page outlines detailed plans for forthcoming travel, assigning Ludlow, Elliot, and Bob to various routes and passes, with rendezvous dates through August. It records weather changes in late January and a move to Chara on the north bank of Yigong Tso, including a slow boat crossing with ponies and loads. Local sentiment against the soldiery is noted following a staged reception.

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Plans

Our plans now are to rejoin, after we have been to Tona Dz, at Be on the 10th, then all go to Trulung where Bob will go to Gompo Ne, then follow East up the Trulung valley. Then to Lari for a few days and back to Tongkyuk by 15th March. After that we plan for Ludlow to go up towards the Nambu La, while we do the Tongkyuk and perhaps Tsunsabe and Soshela areas. Then by 15th-20th May, Elliot is to go via Tse La Dz to the Dujang La and Budi Soshela, returning by the end of July. Bob will go to Showa and work all available passes in May, June, and July: Ludlow works the Yigong Range. We all meet about here about August 15th to discuss the future. So much for our plans: we will see how they work out. We also think of leaving the country by two parties by the Doshong La and Chimdro La, but that all depends on local conditions and many other things, and can only be guessed at now.

29th-30th January. Halt. Very quick changes in the weather. 28th bleak and miserably cold, followed by two perfect days. Minimum temperature has varied in three nights 13° - 30° - 14° F! We hope to be off tomorrow morning for the Yigong Tso for a change. There cannot be much to collect there that is not here, but it will be nice to move again.

31st January. Chara, on Yigong Tso North bank. Beautiful day again. Transport only half came, but we got off at 9:00 and on to the trail at 11:00. It took us till 1:15 to get to the other end, round the bottom of the very steep hill. Two boats were joined together, though usually only one is used. In the two we had 5 ponies, about 15 loads of kit and 15 men. We could have taken a little more. Rowing is a slow job. I doubt if we went 2 miles, although it took over two hours. The lake looks deep, up till the West end where the silted up part starts. From there westwards the river wanders about from side to side in the sand. The soldiery here are very unpopular indeed, and perhaps to appease us, they staged a reception, all turning out lined to meet us, in full dress uniform, topis and all - a comic sight. I have talked with several locals, and all are unanimous that the soldiery are a curse. If they don't give the requisite amount of butter or whatever it is, soldiers come and

SUMMARY:
Notes describe the lake’s depth and local supplies, followed by entries for 14–18 Feb covering warming weather, fishing results, and moves between Sangyü, Chakzam, and Trulung. A shikari with Laku and Sandup searched for a large bird called 'tse' without success, Bob took the low river road, and a very hot spring was found among riverside boulders.

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The lake as it is at present is about 2 1/2 miles long in a straight line. Probably this is extended by another 4 to 5 miles in the summer. Supplies have been fairly easily obtainable here. Wheat flour is available in small quantities always, price about 1 sang per 'tre' (15 tres to a bo). There is no rice, but 'tse tse' (millet) is available in its place. Potatoes good but not plentiful. Turnips any amount. Barley rather scarce, considering the amount which seems to be grown round about. Peas not available. We have been very glad to be able to get as much honey as we want. We have been paying about 10 sangs for 2 lbs or so, and it is very good stuff. Every house has a bee hive or two, which are made from a section of a tree trunk. The lake, measured today, is 33 feet deep where the river goes out at the E. end. Further up, about 300x, it is 40 ft deep. About 500x W from the Eastern end, the depth is 76' in the middle.

14th-15th Feb. Halt. Weather getting warmer. Fish have begun to take - 5 were caught on 14th, but none took on 15th.

16th Feb. Sangyü. This camp is really about 4 miles beyond Sangyü, where a few houses are occupied. Here there are no inhabitants at all. It tried to rain all day, but held off, except for occasional spitting, till the evening. Saw nothing of any interest on the way, there appears to be little advance in anything as yet.

17th Feb. Chakzam. Rained a good deal last night. Fine most of today, but clouded again spitting off & on. Very warm. Nothing seen on the road, but there are signs that some things are moving, though the big Rhodo is not nearly in flower. A shikari with us said he thought he could find a bird he called 'tse' which was bigger than a monal. He, Laku & Sandup went off to look for it but found nothing. It is said to be so big that 7 form a man's load. Ludlow has heard before of this bird.

18th Feb. Trulung. Unsettled day. Took 6 1/2 hours on the march. Bob went by the river on the low road, which we had not been by before. We found, among the boulders beside the river (under water in summer) a hot spring, so hot that one could not touch the water. It was, in fact bubbling out with some force in two