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Title: Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fergusson, W. N Brooke, John Weston, l880-l908
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as its ownguest-house. This one we found to be very roomy and, asit had just been reconstructed, it was quite clean. Uponexamination we discovered that most of the houses were newand several others in the course of construction. When weinquired why these houses were being rebuilt, we were toldthat some three years previously a great earthquake haddestroyed nearly all the buildings, and killed most of theinhabitants. The monastery, which is about half-a-mileaway, had also been shaken, and some of the cloisters inconnection with it fell, yet the temples and many of thecells were unharmed. These monasteries along the main road are also greatwarehouses or tea stations; much of the tea shipped intoTibet travels over this road, and is conveyed from stage tostage by local animals. A great part of this work is donegratis, while on some occasions a small fee is paid by themonastery for carrying the tea from one post to another.I saw hundreds of yak loads deposited at Dawo while I wasthere. 2C6
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BLACK RIVER BLACKSMITH AM) HIS WIFE. The Traffic of the Great North Road. We thought of passing down through Chantwei, a trackof country that is bounded by the Horba States on the north,by Dergi on the west, by Chala on the east and by Litang onthe south ; so far as I know, Chantwei has never been visitedby any European. We found a Mohammedan mihtary official here whomI had met some years before. He called and was mostfriendly. We made very cautious inquiries about thecondition of the country to the west, and found it wasgoverned from Lhasa, the official being changed every threeyears. About nfteen years ago these people rebelled againstthe Chinese, who asked the Tibetan troops from Batang tohelp them to put down the rebellion. It ended in the Chinesehanding the government of the country over to Lhasa, asthe inhabitants were all Tibetans, on condition that thereshould be no raiding along the big roads. An official wasappointed from the Holy City with the title known to theChinese as T

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