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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: A PORTION OF THE RUINS OF THE GREAT CHAMDO MONASTERYDESTROYED BY CHINESE TROOPS IN I912

Text Appearing After Image: COMMENCEMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION WORK ON THE CHAMDOMONASTERY AFTER THE TIBETAN OCCUPATION SIX YEARS LATER VII RETURN TO CHAMDO 179 the most terrible of outrages against his reHgion and hisfellow countrymen. Yemdo is only about 10,400 feet high, and we found theweather quite warm again. Autumn ploughing was even stillin progress. The plough is drawn by yak from a yoke attachedto their horns. The Me Chu joins the Mekong a few miles below Yemdo.There is a coracle ferry here, and a road leads thence west-wards to the Tibetan district of Bashii and the Salween valley.This was the route followed by the Chinese troops fromDraya who crossed the Mekong in an attempt to invadeTibet, Avith disastrous results to themselves, as narrated else-where^. The trail we were following led down the Me Chuas far as the hamlet of Dowa, about half-way to the Mekong,and then turned up a side ravine to the north. A long marchup this valley brought us to a group of farms called Jyaragong. On the following day we c

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