1936 - 1937 Mission Diary

The official diary of the Gould mission to Lhasa sent by the British government. Read more about the mission diary.

November 9th, Monday.

see photographs below

First round of seven-a-side football. It was uncomfortably hot playing.

Every day now the temperature rises well above 60 F., but at night there are ten to fifteen degrees of frost.

Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman [see handwritten annotations in Diary by Hugh Richardson in MS. Or. Richardson 2, Bodleian Libary, Department of Oriental Collections, University of Oxford]

Page Reference: Pt IX p.1