Part 33 - Kashong La halt; mail via Tsona–Chayul and plant collecting

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SUMMARY:
The writer reports mail troubles after Tsona, with a zho giving out at Gyá Sum and a dakchi returning to Chayul to arrange forwarding, and decides to remain in the area another week due to difficult terrain. On a foul, rainy halt day at Kashong La they traversed the pass again, collecting specimens including Primula geraniifolia (2374), macrophylla var. macrocarpa (2375), Diapensia himalaica (2376), and Primula phyllocalyx (2377), noting the Diapensia may be new.

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reached Tsona after we left, and had been sent on on a zho. The zho had given out at Gyá Sum, and the man returned. So where the mail is now, we don't know. But it is on the way, and a very fat one it seems. The dakchi returns tomorrow to Chayul to arrange to bring it on. I have decided to stay here a week more. The area is huge, and I can only do little bits at a time. There is always this Kashong La to climb, and almost anywhere one goes means climbing up 4000 ft if not more. The ideal camp would be somewhere close to the lake, about 1000 ft above it. A most interesting day, and from the weather point of view a most foul one.

15th July. Halt. Kashong La. A foul day, rained very heavily all day.

Prim. geraniifolia 2374
macrophylla var. macrocarpa 2375
Went over the Kashong La again, scoured to the left on the far side, then kept high to the R. But we got little, but some more specimens of what we got before.

Prim. phyllocalyx 2377
No new primulas. Possibly the Diapensia is new. It seems so much bigger and I cannot see

Diapensia himalaica 2376