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prayer wheels & also offered to take us thru the temple.  No view of the snow mtns or even their nearby hills was obtained today.
[[circled]] 11 [[/circled]]  This morning at daylight the rain was falling heavily.  I visited the curator of Botany at the Botanic Gardens.  No local naturalist are in the community but he said that several of the tea-planters were enthusiastic sportsmen & knew the surrounding country well.  At the present time he said no persons were allowed to enter Tibet but a few years ago permission could be obtained & he had been granted such favors by the Indian Govt.  At 6 P.M. the fog & clouds lifted so we could see the nearby hills & valleys but the snow peaks remained hidden.