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On the 25th, at Tuquoroma, I recorded 10.510. In my tent, the temperature fluctuated with the state of the fire, from 26 degrees at night to 58 degrees when the sun beat on it; but the only choice was between cold and suffocating smoke.
Lichens Poa annua and Shepherd's purse Tibet camp Tuquoroma Scenery of pass Glaciers and snow Summit Plants, woolly, etc. On the 18th November, we left Mywa Guola, and continued up the river to the village of Wallanchoon or Walloong, which was reached in six marches. I crossed the Mewa, an affluent from the north, by another excellent suspension bridge.
The name of Dhamersala is applied, in the mountains as in the plains of India, to a house provided for the accommodation of travellers, whether it be one of the beautiful caravanserais built to gratify the piety, ostentation, or benevolence of a rajah, or such a miserable shieling of rough stone and plank as that of Tuquoroma, in which we took up our quarters, at 13,000 feet elevation.
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