Jack Young's party found the La Smassable, #0 crossed. the Ah-jo-La to Ahejacdrone. Here they spent the night. Next day, when trying to reas a Tower pass into the Yulonsshi Valley they again came to grief. Late in the afternoon a heavy mist came on them making it almost impossible to see anything abend of them. However, they crossed this pass and made down the valley, planning to reach Yolongshi that night. Ax no one seemed to be very. clear about distance, the party kept on in the moon-Hight' ti) about 8 pin. Finding no 'Yulongtht, they turned back and met the main' caravan about 980; and decided to\spend the night just where they were. Hungry. tired. cold, the party turned in without all the con folations of a nice warm dinner. Yulongshi was safely reached next day and the expedition prepared for ite frat base on the other side of the Tsimila and near the Gong Ga March on the Gon Ga complex, as the expedition is finding. is not propitious either for small game, big Kame, or wild flowers. To begin with, the 8,000 feet stretch between the winter and summer snow-line is not yet ba. and thi i usualy the happy hunting ground for rare spec linens of fauna and flora. It is too much for the party to wait around {UN late April or early May when there is some prospect of big game or bright flowers. In the meantime the expedition is devoting its atten tion to trapping Tibetan eared hcasnts, Apparently this sno easy Mrs. Young's Letter Mrs, Young writing about these wirds says: "The story of the pheasants is sad. We have spent ten arduous days trying to catch them live, using several methods of trapping them and finally hiring a professional trapper. Not only are the pheasants hard to catch, but once yot have secured them, it is still a prolem to keep them alive. Yesterday, one of ott men cayne down from the Gong Ga lemacery with a pheasant in his coat. To-day, Quentin made hhis appearance with two more, and we rejoiced over the fact that one was a female. Then, what happened" One bird had his leg badly bruised, Jexpedition. Her letters are simply fall of the doings of the whole party Jand when the expedition talks of moving in the direction of Mull, she writes about it with great gusto. Like Kingdom Ward. the great plant col-Neetor. Mrs. Young's part in the Hatkang Expedition is collecting plants, and though she has had no perience, she is determined to do What she can to bring something back to the Aedemia Sinica in Nanking From. a botanical standpoint Mul tu largely unexplored. Kinsdom Ward, George Forrest, and Joseph Rock have all done an immense amount of botanical work in, this [most interesting region so Mrs. Youn wil need to work very hard if her Jobject Is fo find something new, in this wonderful country. She Kingdom Ward's book with her so will know just exactly what that treat botanist has missed.
The Tibetan "Ula"
The Tibetan Ula, which the ex-able system. A pen Knife or a foun-{nin pen is lost and the Uta have sot to find it. A box is missing and the Ula have got to find it, A message has to go to Tachienly andthe Ula have to take Provisions are low and the Ul have got to bring them. The Ula carry water, gather wood, light fires, and are more or less responsible for the safety of the whole expedition. Boxes, outfit and gear are left in the Tibetan headman's care and nothing lost. or damaged. Each Ula receives the sum of twenty Mexican fe ents per day and for that sum he jean buy n lot of snuff, his one apparent weakness. His yak supplies him with butter and his fields grow his Barley and China provides him with tea. He, therefore, lets himself oon snuff.
"py April 10 the expedition's supplies were getting quite low and Mrs. Young, writing under that date says: "The Ula came to-day and we are so happy we have forgotten all about the waiting. It was the first time T experienced receiving parcels by Ula fud I couldn't help the big lump that came to my throat as T shouted. "You have come, you have come'. Tt has been hard the last few days. T stayed in' bed for a day and a half with a fever caused by the hot sun. Taek, in turn, came back from Bawa fea-bitten and complaining rheumatism. Both of us dreaded meals, T ale pancakes till I couldn't Hfook one in the face, and Jack re-[sorted to corn meal mush.
"But, gosh, when the two boxes Jcame we were overjoyed. It is worth the waiting, I say, because the thrill {is greater in the end. We all thank: you from the bottom of our hearts {for all your trouble". Thus we follow the travellers in their daily adventures around the Gong Ga.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.