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March 8. L. D. traversed the already familiar route (to Lashio) to Phongmè.
801a "crab apple" = Docynia indica 1201

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We only found 2 Codonopsis, one could not find the tuber, and the seed was not nearly ripe. This is a nice march to have got over. There is nothing now to worry about except officials and presents in Paro. We seem to have got near the end of our trip very suddenly, with only three days to go.

22nd October Pyimitangka. Low clouds in the morning looking like rain. But they soon cleared away and the day was beautiful, with just enough cloud for extra beauty. Ceratostigma griffithianum is in better flower now than it was in August, so we did not get much seed - 31 seeds actually, out of a big bundle of heads. The river is very low. Both this river and the main Thimpu river look lovely for trout, and neither comes down very dirty at any time.

23rd October. Paro. Lovely day. We came slowly, with a wait on the pass where the view was very pretty. Then down to search for Codonopsis. Here 5 of us looked with great care and we got in all 6 tubers only and a few seed. The Zimpon spent a long time with us and promises to give transport tonight, ready for a very early start in the morning.

24th Oct. Ha. Again a lovely day, but with dense cloud in the morning, through which we ascended about 2000 ft up. The Zimpon's promises meant exactly nothing at all. Coolies came at all hours in the morning, not the evening before, and some did not leave Paro till midday. So coolies were not all in till 8.0pm. Took a few seed on the way and roots of P. griffithii from the Chelai La. Ludlow joined up here, in very good form and very fit. Chuni and Ugyen also here, and came to dinner.

25th Oct. Today the bulk of our kit went off to Rinchenpong, with the...

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M.O. Tak
18/3/36 13/4 13/5 4/6 8/6 25/6 30/6 1.8.
Advances out of Cash: Danong 20/- 2/- 5/- 50/- 1/- 10/-
x out of notes. own. Pintso 40/- 5/- 5/- 1/- 10/-
Tenduk 20/- 10/- 5/- 1/- 10/- 10/-
Tsongpen 15/- 5/- 1/- 5/- 5/- 10/-
Guba 10/- 10/- 1/- 10/-
A. Sheikh 10/- 1/- 10/- 10/-

Engaged 13/5/36 Norbu Rs 7 Sanga Chöling. Tengas = 7/8 on 1.6.36. Pd on 1.6.36
Tapion 5/6/36. Pd wages as tapion, but not as dak runner. 5/6/36.
Tapion paid Rs. 13/- on 30.6.36. as Dakchi. paid off 12/7/36.

An M.O. also sent for Tsongpen. Money 25

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B.G. cards
wedding
scenes at
White Hall
Gangtok:
taken by
Richards

One photo. at any rate was spoilt by the bride suddenly finding two leeches crawling up her frock just as I was about to press the button. They had come out of her bouquet of roses. In the afternoon there was a garden party to all the Sikkimese officials & other guests. I had hoped to leave for Karponang that evening & sent off my kit & bedding in the afternoon. But the Maharajas didn't leave till 6.30 pm, so I stayed the night. Left at 5.0 am riding a good pony & reached Karponang at 7.30. Picked up my kit there & came straight on here. At Tsomgo it started to rain. All went well till we reached the last mile at 3.0 pm, when we found that the whole of the steep hillside had avalanched, leaving no road possible without some men to help. So we manhandled our kit to the top of the pass, sent the mules back & Ahmad Sheikh came on here for a couple of mules to bring it down. It was then dark & raining pretty hard, so we did well to reach here by 11.0 pm. Here I met two Americans, Mrs Wheeler & Mrs Prince - awful women I eventually thought. They have had awful trouble with their transport, & to add to that were caught in the thick of the avalanches two days ago.

B.G. Part underexposed - camera
not too steady. - B.G.

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W. Bhutan

24th May. CHUMBATHANG. Had to spend the day here as the mules only arrived over the pass at 2.30 pm. It rained most of the day, & all I did was to shoot a few birds.

25th May. CHARITHANG. 10 miles. Left at 5.0 am, arrived about 1.0 pm. Cloudy & misty at first clearing up later. Rain

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days, when the rate to Phari was Rs 6/12 a mule & Rs 5/12 a mule. We are now paying a flat rate of Rs 6/- & have 25 mule loads (25 pack mules + 4 riding mules). We saw Shipton & Tilman, who were staying with the Odlings. Also Crawford who climbed a good way up Chomolhari with Chapman. Tobgye & Chuni were very kind to us, & did us very well indeed. Jigme had to go off with his Mother to Calcutta to have his tonsils out. On several nights we opened up the wireless & tried it, & it is most successful. Whether it will stand up to mule transport or not is another question. We have had fine weather, but cloudy all the time. But Gangtok as usual was wet & unpleasant.

22nd Feb. To Ari. 7 miles. A beautifully clear day, not too hot, but the valleys are full of blue smoke, from jhooming. We had no pass to enter Sikkim, but the police at Pedong were very reasonable and only made us sign a statement. The road is rather trying down to the valley, over bad cobble stones. I walked today, & feel much the better of the exercise. In Rhenock I met R.S. R.B. Pradhan of the Chandra Nurseries & Faqir Chand the State Engineer. The latter had for the first time got his car - a 7 hp. Austin - up to Rhenock, and in it had low

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Then turn up a side valley on the left bank; it ascends very steeply for about 2000 feet. Over the pass one loses 1000 ft at once, then starts up again a long climb which continues till within a mile of Kazare. This climb is on the ridge most of the way. Kazare must be about 4500 ft or so. Nothing interesting botanically seen.

28th March. Surelakha B.P. 204.7 = 3840. 70° 1.0844. Ht approx. 4164'
This is only three miles. An easy ascent to a pass over the ridge, and down about 1000' this side. Again nothing of interest, no Rhododendrons at all seen. In 1937 I did not come this awful up and down route, neither did I reach this village, but I went to a place called Surelakha, which must have been down in the valley from here. It struck me as very much easier than this route; what's more, there were many rhodos in the trees. All the inhabitants so far are Nepalis. It seems very wrong that there should be political agitation here, but there has been, stirred up by a Kalimpong Nepali who came here just to do that. One wonders if he does this on his own, for what he can collect, or if he is instructed by others higher up. Hot and clear today.

29th March. Camp 6 m. beyond Chungsing or Chungsemo. Cultivation at Surelakha is now quite extensive & extends from where we camped at over 4000' down to about 1500', and up the other side of the valley. We lost nearly all yesterday's altitude at once, dropping into the valley bottom and crossing the river at about m 2. Then steeply up 500' or so to a pass at m 3. Then more or less level through dense forest to Chungsing or Chungsemo at m 5. There are no huts here, but H.H.'s cattle come here in winter. The only pretty flowering trees seen were Bauhinia variegata & an Erythrina. I think I saw Albizzia Shuffii, but not in flower. Beyond Chungsing the path continues up for a mile, then