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not to have a clear morning, but we still have 3 mornings, so may have a clear one. We went down the staircase leading to Gompo Ne today & took photos of the junction of the Po Tsangpo & the Kongbo Tsangpo. The gorge is fine, but the sides are only here & there perpendicular. There are two bridges over the Tsangpo - one at Gompo Ne & one about 1/2 mile downstream. Another is across the Po Tsangpo about 1/2 to 1 mile from the junction. We met two men who had come from Showa just to make the pilgrimage to Gompo Ne. They returned tonight, & brought with them the first rhodo. in flower, as I had asked them to. Tsompon will go down tomorrow. Betty & I have had enough climbing, & are resting for the return journey.
We ourselves found no rhodos in flower, but one other in seed.
I am again surprised at the vegetation here. One would think that this point, going down to Gompo Ne, would be a very wet place. But it is clothed in pine, oak, a few rhodos & other shrubs, & does not at all appear wet. The 'Carmine Cherry' is common & very beautiful.
This evening a man came up with coolies & stopped here & I had a long talk with him. He is a Bhutanese really & talks Bhutanese. He comes from close to Yortong & knows the Doshong La, Showa La, Sula & Dashing La. Asked about flowers, he was emphatic that there were many more on the Doshong La than any of the others. He has come up this time in a month, but describes his home as 8 days journey from here.
From the Doshong to Yortong is 8 days, only the first of which is at all difficult - like the path along the Po Tsangpo he said. The other seven are very easy. But he thought coolies might be difficult. Yortong he described as having 30 houses, but these people don't have their own houses as they do here. They get together & make one huge house in which many families live.
This man is under the 'Kutsap' of Showa whom he dislikes intensely. It seems that he owes him 8 dots & has no intention of paying. When he gets to Tangme, he thinks he will go back.
