Note 42 — Chapter III · JOURNEY TO DONGTSE.
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Breakfast was now brought in, and consisted of a kind of pot-herb, called pa-tsal,42 cured in the cold draught, potatoes, and radishes, which had been kept in sand underground. I asked the minister if I might go to visit the Palkhor choide of Gyantse with the Tung-chen on the morrow; and having obtained his consent, two ponies were ordered to be ready for an early start.