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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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ,000 feet, across a rocky spur trending west-wards from the main watershed range. From this pass wedescended for several hours march, at first through a grassyvalley and then through a limestone gorge with perpen-dicular cliffs, debouching finally on to the Dza Chu at thehamlet of Kanda, elevation about 12,000 feet. This place consists of half a dozen hovels surrounded bya few stony fields; but it is pleasant to come upon trees,houses and cultivation again after wandering for so manydays in the bleak and empty grass country. We have, indeed,scarcely seen a tree since leaving the Yalung valley weeksago. The barley here has been sown, and is even beginningto sprout in places, almost the first sign of green we haveseen on our journey; on the same latitude in Szechuan thewheat is now being harvested. Silver pheasants and part-ridges are abundant in the neighbourhood. A cultivated valley such as this is called rong by theTibetans, and is regarded as a land flowing with milk and PLATE XXI11 Text Appearing After Image: ^1^.^| ,-i5f ■^>j CAMP ON THE GRASS COUNTRY OF THE UPPER MEKONG BASIN Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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