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Title: Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Teichman, Eric, Sir, 1884-1944 Subjects: Publisher: Cambridge, England : University Press Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing After Image: DRIWO, CASTLE OF THE NATIVE CHIEF I AT DAWU 65 old States were most intricate, the jurisdictions of the Chiefsbeing over families rather than fixed territories. The repre-sentative of the family of the former Mazur Rajah lives in avillage close by. Dawu consists of a large Gelugba monastery with manyhundreds of monks and a Tibetan village. We called on themonastery to-day, and saw some fine but odoriferous basereliefs of butter made in honour of the New Year festivities. There is a Catholic Mission at Dawu, one of the stationsof the Mission du Tibet, and for a short time the ProtestantChina Inland Mission had a branch here too. The Catholicsestablished themselves here in Chao Erh-fengs time, shortlybefore the revolutionary troubles of 1911. In 1912, at thetime of the widespread risings against the Chinese in EasternTibet, there was serious trouble at Dawu, and the Catholics,who on this frontier are compelled by force of circumstancesto identify themselves with the Chinese, though thei

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