One minor mystery relating to Alexandra David-Néel has a solution. In "Forbidden Journey", p. 284, the authors wonder how Mme. David-Néel's secretary, Violet Sydney, made her way back to the West in 1939 after "Sous des nuées d'orage" (Storm Clouds) was completed in Tachienlu. Peter Goullart's "Land of the Lamas" (not in "Forbidden Journey"'s bibliography), on pp. 110–113 gives an account of his accompanying Ms. Sydney partway back, then putting her under the care of Lolo bandits to continue the journey to Chengdu. While in Eastern Tibet David-Néel and Yongden completed circumambulation of the holy mountain Amnye Machen.