TfW has staff enforcing mask protocols at all the busy stations and most travellers oblige, albeit some with ill grace.

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.

Larded with sweet flowers ; Which bewept to the grave

The rock on which the jong stands must at one time have been lapped by the waters of the lake, but at the present time the Yam-dok tso has retreated so far, that a quashy stretch of vivid green quagmire spreads between the road and the shore.