Part 127 - Notes on Me La excursions, Shingbe yak herders, and mail day

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The page describes a small Tibetan girl herding yaks at Shingbe and photographic work in evening mist, followed by excursions to the Me La with mountain and bird observations. It notes rain disrupting work, a mail day, and gifts of butter and a cake from H.H. and vegetables from Ashe Pedon, with hopes to reach the drier Tibetan plateau soon.

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Small Tibetan girl, with yak herds at Shingbe.
Evening mist coming up valley taken at 1/9 with filter and picture per second.

& very capable, being sent, as I saw yesterday, by herself up to the Me La, to bring in the horses. I gave her a Woolworth necklace, which pleased her immensely. I find on looking over my photos that with the damp, a few have stuck together, & have had to be thrown away. Truly this is no easy country to work in in the summer. I think we shall both be very glad indeed to get out into the drier plateau of Tibet in three or four weeks time.

10th (L's brother) On 7th we had a slack day, doing little but pack up & prepare for more specimens. 8th left at 4.45 am & reached the Me La at 6.30. A beautiful morning: took some photos of the mountains beyond the la (Superb view of Tibetan peaks to the S & W. Snow partridge, wrens, snow pigeon, & a kestrel), with tri-colour red filter. Then up the hills to the South, but found little but Himalayan snow-cock & wrens. These wrens are queer, as they are in fair numbers up there on bare moraine rocks, & also 2000' lower in dense jungle. Both are breeding or have just bred. We were lucky this day, as it kept fine till after 2.0 pm when we got back.

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View of snow hills beyond Meha towards Chola to North.
Tel x 2 : Tel x 4
Birds

9th Yesterday we had to send off a mail, so spent the day writing letters & packing off birds. We were lucky in not going out yesterday as it rained nearly all day, & was very cold. I'm afraid the weather has rather broken down at last. With the mail were more presents of butter & a cake from H.H. & vegetables from Ashe Pedon. She is a kind-hearted old soul.