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Title: Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921 Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Howard-Bury, Charles, 1881- Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert, 1886-1924 Subjects: Mount Everest Expedition, 1921 Publisher: New York Longmans, Green and co. London, E. Arnold & co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: s brother, whowas acting as agent for him, rode out to meet us and escortedus to his house, a fine solid stone building dommating aUthe small houses. The tops of the walls were covered withgorse and juniper, rather suggestive of Christmas decorations.Tents were pitched for us in a grass paddock close to a groveof wiUows. We were then conducted upstairs into a pleasantroom where were some fine gilt Chinese cabinets and somegood Chinese rugs. Here the Jongpen had a meal preparedfor us. We were first given tea, milk and beer, after whichsome fifteen dumplings apiece, each as big as a small apple,were put down in front of us together with three other bowls.In one of these was a black Chinese sauce, m. another a chfiHepaste, and a third contained a barley soup. We were thengiven chopsticks with which we were expected to conveythe dumplings into the barley soup, break them up there,season them with the various sauces, and then convey themto our mouths—a not too easy feat. This meal was so

Text Appearing After Image: FROM KHAMBA DZONG TO TINGRI 63 satisfying that we felt that we did not want to eat anythingfor a long time afterwards. We were told that in the rainyseason the river here was unfordable, as it rose several feetand flooded over the plains, and it was then necessary tokeep to the North or to the South of it. In the eveningthe agent came to make an official call and presented uswith a sheep and a number of eggs. We invited him todinner and gave him his first taste of such European cookingas could be provided by our native cooks. There was a slight frost during the night, but the dayturned out very fine. Our host accompanied us to the villageof Rongkong, one of the villages belonging to his brother,and here he said good-bye to us. The days march wasuninteresting. We followed along the left bank of theYaru past well-irrigated barley fields, for there was anyamount of water here, until the valley narrowed and thesides came down steeper, when it became covered withgorse bushes. This valley w

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