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SUMMARY:
Field notes record plant specimens and a wet, muddy march from Chendebi over the Pele La and down the Longte Chu, with difficulties taking flower photographs and observations on loads carried by local porters. A report was sent from Trongsa on 8 July 1933 noted as slightly underexposed, and the next camp was at Tsang Ka.

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5.0 pm, so Ramzana could not skin many that night.

Notholirion macrophyllum 228
Lilium nanum 225 - 1 plant.
Calanthe alpina 226
Meconopsis villosa 230
Oreocharis foliosa 234

5th July. CHENDEBI. 7500. 13 miles. (An. Ht. 7500' set) Another foul day with mist & heavy rain all day. Saw none of the country, birds were all lying clump. Flowers quite interesting. I find it almost impossible to get any colour photos of flowers. There is hardly a fine moment when we reach camp, or else it is only fine before my tail comes in. A hard day over awful mud paths; first a very steep ascent to the Pele La (11055') then steady down slippery paths along the Longte Chu to camp. The coolies are not particularly quick, but it seems to make little difference whether they go up hill or along the level. Tobgye tells me that normally, when carrying their own loads, women even carry 2 maunds (160 lbs), & then always carry the whole stage.

No 16 sent from Trongsa on 8.7.33.
Report slightly underexposed

6th July. TSANG KA. 7500'. 12 miles. (An. Ht. ) Another filthy wet day, raining hard all

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At Chendebi, the diarist notes mostly fine weather, ripe buckwheat being cut, and a white Crawfurdia observed. The party splits: kit sent to Ritang, Pintso to Dungshinggang for taxation inquiries about Nepali sheep, and Tenduk collecting iris seeds near Punzor; plans are made to travel via the Rinchen Chu and Tang Chu. On 4 August, a halt at Chendebi is recorded; Primula seeds are unripe, a plant clump is taken to send by air mail, and Tsongpen goes to collect P. bracteosa roots.

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3rd August. Chendebi. 14 miles. Fine all morning: some rain in the evening.

This is the wettest month in Bhutan, but so far we have been very lucky. At Domkhar there was always rain, but only at night except on two days, when it rained from 11.0 am on, very hard. Since then we have only had afternoon or evening rain. The only interesting thing seen today was a white Crawfurdia 3504 (Tripleurospermum volubile 3504).

Here the buckwheat is ripe and is being cut. Fields of it on the hillside are rather pretty, the colour of bracken in autumn, only rather redder. From here we split up: My kit, except 10 loads, goes off to Ritang tomorrow: Pintso goes off to Dungshinggang in the Mangde Chu valley.

Tenduk is now down at Punzor, collecting, I hope seeds of an iris (Iris 3535), and will return tomorrow. Then he, Tsongpen and I go up the Rinchen Chu and back to Ritang by the Tang Chu, where Pintso will meet us. Pintso goes to find out about the Nepali sheep, how many there are and so on for taxation purposes.

4th August. Halt. Chendebi. Went to have a look at Primula 3052 (P. flagellaris 3052), but the seeds are not yet ripe, and will not be for a month. So I took a lump to carry along with us and send home by air mail. Kit has gone off to Ritang and Pintso to Dungshinggang. Tsongpen has gone to collect roots of P. bracteosa. (Aster sheriffianus approx 4000 3532)

SUMMARY:
Notes from Chendebi on the Trongsa Road record plant observations and collections, plans to stay two days, and mention of H.H.'s 'kazana' caravan of 200 loads passing through. The writer recalls a very wet visit in 1933 with comic hardships, and on 12 May notes more rain and identifies Rhododendron griffithianum as common just below Chendebi.

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Chendebi - Trongsa Road R. arboreum 3017, R. virgatum 3021, Enkianthus deflexus 3020, Gaultheria griffithiana 3019
Chendebi. R. rhaedoforum 3035 Berberis 3034

...takes its place & is very common just below Chendebi. A few Rhod. edgeworthii too were seen. We will stay here two days. In any case that would be necessary, as H.H.'s 'kazana' - his lakh of rupees & many other things - 200 coolie loads - are just in Chendebi this evening, & they have to go on tomorrow.

My recollections of Chendebi in 1933 are amusing but not very pleasant. We never saw more than 100 yards or so in any direction owing to the thick mist. It rained hard all the time we were here, & dinner in our bamboo village was comic. Rain came in through the roof everywhere, & a young torrent found its way to the dining room. We all sat on the table with our feet on the chairs like that. I also remember a plate of soup being brought in with a leech on the edge of it. It has started to rain this evening, but I don't think will be very much.

12th May. Halt Chendebi. Some rain yesterday evening, & more again this evening. Went out in the morning, & picked up a few flowers. The fine rhod. we found yesterday is Rhod. griffithianum. It is a beauty & very common just below Chendebi, but seems to stop abruptly here. Also one shrub of another red rhododendron, which...

SUMMARY:
Revisited Cheli La and collected flowers including Primula sikkimensis, Kashmir corydalis, and Bergenia ligulata; left Ha with Ludlow, ascended through rhododendron scrub to the pass with views of Chomolhari. Transport was by ponies, mules, and porters; spent the night at Chang na na amid a heavy thunderstorm and troublesome flies.

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B. 11. contd. not been able to do much either, birds being hard to find. On
Chomolhari the Cheli La again we found some more flowers, P. sikkimensis
massif from top (? P. obliqua 129), the Kashmir corydalis (Coryd. cash. 131) &
of Cheli La (Ha- a big red saxifrage (Bergenia ligulata 130). On 21st we
Paro). Views near left Ha, Ludlow & I fairly early, going straight up to the
Chang na na, Cheli La through the forest. The hill to the S. of the pass,
starting off in at the top, is densely covered with rhododendron scrub.
the morning: This seems to be a good flower place. We had a fair
the party on the view of Chomolhari from the top, a much more
road to Paro. impressive sight from the South than from the Natu La.
Transport consisted of ponies, mules & men & women. The
women seem to manage 80 lb loads as easily as the
men almost. Spent the night at Chang na na. A
B. 12. heavy thunder storm broke about 2.0 pm & nearly washed the
Paro dancers camp away. There are some awful flies here, which we
meet us near

SUMMARY:
Halt at Cheenchar with afternoon seed collecting of Meconopsis simplicifolia and Fritillaria cirrhosa after rain cleared. Heavy rain during the march to camp below Podzo Sumdo, with local rumors recounted and few new flowers noted aside from a large-leaved Thalictrum chelidonii.

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which is in full flower about 15000', but last year's capsules are full of seed which is perfectly good as some was germinating in the capsule.

24th August. Halt. Cheenchar. Stayed in camp till the evening, when Ludlow & I went for a wander for a couple of hours, found seed of Meconopsis simplicifolia 16113 & of Fritillaria cirrhosa 16111 ripe & collected a good deal. Fine rain most of the day, but at 2.0 it suddenly cleared up & was beautiful till about 4.30 or 5.0 pm.

25th August. Camp below Podzo Sumdo. 9 m. 10500'. Rained very hard all last night, & practically all today. When the local head man came yesterday I heard some stories about myself. One was that when on the 'kingkor' I had a woman with me. She was shut up in a box during the day & only produced at night. At Sanga Choling we apparently had some extraordinary gift of making small babies. This was run down to my having blown up a balloon for a kid to play with. Few new flowers seen today. One is a beautiful Thalictrum chelidonii 2496, different to the one taken before, which seemed to be T. chelidonii. This one has very much bigger leaves, but the flower is the same and very pretty. It is common between Podzo Sumdo & Yarap, & down here less common. Another was a

SUMMARY:
Brief checklist noting 'Kodak,' a titling machine, CBS, W/T, and several names or initials including Gulla, Shaw Mac, A.J.H., HER, Fox, and a reference to Pailthorpe's successor.

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Kodak. Titling machine ✓.
Gulla.
Shaw Mac.
CBS. ✓
Pailthorpe's successor. ✓ W/T.
A.J.H. ✓
HER ✓
Fox

SUMMARY:
At Chayul, the diarist notes poor weather and that Danang and Tendru have not yet arrived. The Dzongpen kindly arranges to send mail to Tsona, while Tsongpen is unwell for translation work. The following day is a fine halt day; mail is dispatched early, expected to reach Tsona by the 4th and Ludlow around the 10th, while the party still awaits Danang and company.

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31st October. Chayul. Rain during last night, & cloudy all day with a strong cold wind up the valley. Danang & Tendru have not arrived yet. The Dzongpen is very kind, & is arranging to send a mail on from here to Tsona. I don't know, he has his doubts, whether Tsona will send it on at once, but I hope so. We have not met today, as Tsongpen hardly feels up to the translation work with a Dzongpen. Mail leaves tomorrow morning.

1st November. Chayul. Halt. Stayed in camp, a very boring day. Danang & Co have not arrived, but I don't think they will be later than tomorrow, the arranged date. If they are, it means they must have been held up for transport. Today was a perfect day. It rained a little in the night, & there was snow very low down. For the first time yet, the wind blew down the valley, & this is the best sign of the end of the monsoon we have had. Not a cloud in the sky this evening. The mail went off this morning before 6.0, & the man will reach Tsona on the 4th midday. At that rate it should reach Ludlow about the 10th Nov.