Part 41 - Nabzi halt and march to Phumzor

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SUMMARY:
Entries describe a halt at Nabzi with heavy overnight rain, payment of coolies who then celebrated noisily, and repacking of stores. The writer spent the next day in camp treating local sickness and noting poor bread but a successful cake by Pritiman, then marched 12 miles to Phumzor in the Mangde Chu valley with weather and timing notes.

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very round. Collected in flower under No. 2991 or 2992. It is common at the place we found it, but we never saw any more anywhere else. A steep slope, among bamboo rhododendrons, where it gets a certain amount of light - not too shut in.

6th May. Nabzi. 6 miles. Rained very hard most of last night. Fine but dull all day, some rain in the evening. It was nice and cool coming in. I paid off the coolies at 2 tankhas a day. They at once went to the village and got completely drunk and made a hell of a noise, but were all very cheerful. Repacked all stores. We have to wait here tomorrow and on next day. It is 5 days to Chendesi, rather uninteresting days I fear, but from there on sounds good.

7th May. Halt Nabzi - Fine all day even fairly clear up the valley on the spurs of the Bl. Mountain. Stayed in camp, and doctored most of the day. There is an awful lot of sickness here of all sorts, but mostly bad eyes and cataract. Pritiman's bread turned out as bad as before, but a cake he made looks good and has risen much more than the bread has.

4400 ft To Phumzor (PHUMZOR) Mangde Chu valley
8th May. Phumzor 12 miles. B.P. 204.8 Temp. 70 Time 4.30 pm. Ht.
Left camp at 6.0, coolies in at 3.15 pm. Path climbs up on