Part 30 - Kyimdong Chu notes, transport plans, and Dzongpon account of aconite wounds

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SUMMARY:
Notes mention specimen 3607 Rhod. vellereum from up Kyimdong Chu and a reference to Kyimdong paper. Ludlow records sending his Lepcha collector (Tsongpon) while the Dzongpon dispatches a man to inspect snow on the Lang La with plans to stamp a yak track if feasible; he also recounts how Tibetan troops treated aconite-tipped arrow wounds, and mentions waiting for transport.

CONTENT:
3607 Rhod. vellereum. Up Kyimdong Chu.

Ludlow 32 - we are sending up my own Lepcha collector
(Tsongpon). The Dzongpon is sending up one of his
men to inspect the snow condition on the Lang La.
The idea is, if the snow is not too deep, to stamp
out a track with yaks.

Ludlow 32.
Talking about the Lobas, he (the Dzongpon) said
that during the fighting some years ago between
them and the Tibetan troops, the latter, when hit
with an aconite-tipped arrow, immediately
extracted the shaft and excised the flesh surrounding
the wound with a knife. If they did this
immediately, they had some chance of survival. If
they failed to do it in time, the aconite paralysed
the muscular tissues of the whole body and death
soon intervened.

Ludlow p 33.
Kyimdong paper.

Waiting for transport.