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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 Before Image: Ngom Chu for the rest of the wayto Chamdo, where we arrived on May 19, just three weeksafter the Chinese garrison had surrendered to the Tibetans. Chamdo (in Chinese Chamuto or Changtu) consists ofa few yamens and temples and a village of mud hovels builton a narrow spit of land between, and just above the con-fluence of, the Dza Chu and the Ngom Chu. The elevationis about 10,600 feet. On a sort of plateau immediately behindrise the gaunt ruins of the once great and splendid monastery,formerly the largest and wealthiest in Kam. The two valleysare so narrow as to permit of scarcely any cultivation. Allaround are bare and somewhat dreary-looking mountains. Though a miserable place in appearance, Chamdo ranks •^ From Lamda the Lhasa road runs up a gorge and over a high pass toEnda in the valley of the Riwoche river, whence it crosses another big pass,or rather plateau, called by the Chinese Waho Shan, to reach Sha-yi Zamka(Chinese Chiayii Chiao), the bridge over the Salween. PLATE XXV

Text Appearing After Image: VIEW OF CHAMDO, LOOKING EAST UP THE NGOM CHU VALLEY: THE TOWN IN THE FOREGROUND, AND THE RUINED MONASTERY ON THE HIGH GROUND BEHIND

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