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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: ■ .j^eAt.-liiA-J^. DRAYA JYAMDUN, LOOKING WEST IV CROSSING THE GAM LA (16,000 FEET) 125 sufficiently far from his earth to catch him in the open; butto our surprise the marmot sat up, whistled and made faces,and the dogs did not dare to tackle him. From Bagung, there is a good road down the level valleyof the Me Chu, past a small monastery, to the village ofWangka, where we were met by a small Tibetan official be-longing to Draya State. He had just returned to his post,on the withdrawal of the Chinese, after eight years of absencein Central Tibet, and will shortly be followed by the ChiefReincarnation of Draya and other lama officials. The villages in this valley, as indeed throughout Draya,are in a very ruined condition, the result, not of the presenthostilities, but of the fighting of 1912-13-14. These rebellionswere suppressed with the severities and atrocities customaryin this wild border warfare, and the natives have since sufferedseverely from the oppressive rule of the Chines

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