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Notes compare Tobgye’s stance with that of Paro regarding Nepalese settlers, and describe a comfortable rest house and a massively built Dzong. Fieldwork continued along the Paro road in fir forest with few birds seen; prisoners from Ha wearing kangues were working on road repairs, and views of Ha Dzong were noted alongside new flowers and shrubs.

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Late Maharaja. Paro does not perhaps altogether agree with this, but Tobgye says he really interferes very little with him. Tobgye is afraid of the Nepalese settlers coming into Bhutan. So far they are only in the low lying Dooars, but tend to come up the valleys. He stops them as far as is in his power, but Paro allows them much more freedom. Everything here is made very pleasant and comfortable for us. 4 rooms and a large central hall. The rest house is a gaudily painted, but very strongly built affair, the floor planks each being about 18" across and 7 yards long. The Dzong opposite is a building which should last for years, very massively built, with a painted enclosed balcony running round one side and half of two other sides. It is built square, with a court in the centre. In the court is built another Dzong of similar type.

12th June - HA. B. S. continued. Spent the morning up the Paro road in the fir forest. Weather fine with showers. Few birds seen, and only two specimens shot. I tried my utmost to catch sight of any there but failed. Prisoners of Ha working on the road, and wearing Kangues. Views of Ha Dzong from up Paro road. Passed on the way four prisoners repairing the road. They were chained round the ankles and were wearing the 'kangue' round their necks. The local word for these means "door". Flowers and shrubs are coming out now and we found several new kinds. In the afternoon Tobgye

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Slight rain on the descent from Bela La to Paro; arrival about 1 pm, followed by a visit from Paro from 2 pm to 6 pm, whose over-familiar manner and open dislike of the Maharaja are noted, with mention of the death of his mother Ashi Palden and inquiries about floating logs down the Wangde Chu. Botanical notes record Cyananthus incanus (3564), Cyananthus lobatus (3565), Codonopsis convolvulacea (3568), and a Codonopsis resembling C. vinciflora with a wine-red ring at the corolla base and hairs to the ring.

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Bela La - Paro. Aug 10 Cyananthus incanus 3564, Cyananthus lobatus 3565 Codonopsis convolvulacea 3568
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Slight rain today. Arrived in about 1.0pm. Then Paro came to me at 2.0pm stayed till 6.0pm. He is quite easy to talk to and has lots to say, but I'm not sure that I like him very much. He is too friendly - in fact he embraced me many times, rubbed his forehead on my chest and clutched my hand for as long as he could. He most certainly does not like the Maharaja and said so pretty openly. The late Maharaja he liked but not this one. He sometimes says one thing, sometimes another; he never told him I was coming so on and so on. I did not like the way he talked at all. A good deal is probably due to the death of Ashi Palden his Mother, who had a very good influence over him. I fancy he was trying to get something out of me, and was asking about floating logs down the Wangde Chu.

On the way down from the pass we found a Codonopsis which looks like Codonopsis vinciflora, but has a ring of wine red at the base of the corolla and hairs from the base to the ring