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days, when the rate to Phari was Rs 6/12 a mule & Rs 5/12 a mule. We are now paying a flat rate of Rs 6/- & have 25 mule loads (25 pack mules + 4 riding mules). We saw Shipton & Tilman, who were staying with the Odlings. Also Crawford who climbed a good way up Chomolhari with Chapman. Tobgye & Chuni were very kind to us, & did us very well indeed. Jigme had to go off with his Mother to Calcutta to have his tonsils out. On several nights we opened up the wireless & tried it, & it is most successful. Whether it will stand up to mule transport or not is another question. We have had fine weather, but cloudy all the time. But Gangtok as usual was wet & unpleasant.
22nd Feb. To Ari. 7 miles. A beautifully clear day, not too hot, but the valleys are full of blue smoke, from jhooming. We had no pass to enter Sikkim, but the police at Pedong were very reasonable and only made us sign a statement. The road is rather trying down to the valley, over bad cobble stones. I walked today, & feel much the better of the exercise. In Rhenock I met R.S. R.B. Pradhan of the Chandra Nurseries & Faqir Chand the State Engineer. The latter had for the first time got his car - a 7 hp. Austin - up to Rhenock, and in it had low
