Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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subject to heavy grade. However it appears that there is a local law prohibiting carriages or autos, Rickshaws, & sedan chairs or dandies are the only means of road transport. [10] Hard rain was on last today. Decent [illegible] with my Nepalese boy Tapu thoroughly wet. We descended the interjacket Observation Hill to the Bhutia village which dwings to the steep rutting. The houses were not typical native huts but perfectly flat ten pieces of foil tents, etc. At one place was another Tibetan temple in charge of Lamas. Many prayer flags were flying in the court + whole series of revolving prayer wheels flanked the entrance. The Lamas started the