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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: Oats tin. Each measure-full was countedby aU the cooKes standing round in a circle; they weremaking sure of having their full ration. Nor was this aU;they wanted to see as part of their suppHes, not only tsampaand rice, but tea, sugar, butter, cooking fat and meat onthe Army scale. This was a new demand altogether beyondthe bargain made with them. The point, of course, hadto be clearly made, that for their so-called luxmies I mustbe trusted to do my best with the surplus money (100 tankasor thereabouts) remaining over from their allowances afterbujdng the flour and rice. These luxury supphes werealways somewhat of a difficulty ; the cooHes had been veryshort of such things on the Northern side—we had no doubtthat some of the ration money had found its way into theSirdars pockets. It would be possible, we hoped, to preventthis happening again. But even so the matter was notsimple. Wliat the cooKes wanted was not always to bebought, or at the local price it was too expensive. On this

Text Appearing After Image: Pethang-tse. THE EASTERN APPROACH 223 occasion a bountiful supply of chillies solved our difficulty.After too many words, and not all in the best temper,the sight of so many of the red, bright, attractive chilliesprevailed; at length my orders were obeyed; the cooliestook up their loads and we started off again. With so much dissatisfaction in the air it was necessaryfor Bullock and me to drive rather than lead the party.In a vaUey where there are many individual farms andlittle villages, the coolies path is well beset with pitfallsand with gin. Without discipline the Sahib might easilyfind himself at the end of a days march with perhaps onlyhalf his loads. It was a slow march this day ; we had barelyaccompHshed 8 miles, when Bullock and I with the hindmostcame round a shoulder on the right bank about 4 p.m. andfound the tents pitched on a grassy shelf and looking up avalley where a stream came in from our left. The Tibetanheadman and his Tibetan coolies who were carrying some ofour l

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