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Identifier: travelsofconsula00teicrich 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, 1884-1944 Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel Tibet (China) -- Foreign relations China China -- Foreign relations Tibet Tibet (China) -- Foreign relations India India -- Foreign relations Tibet Publisher: Cambridge, Eng. : University Press Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: PUYULUNG VILLAGE, NEAR KAXZE

Text Appearing After Image: i KANZE GOMBA, ONE OF THE LARGEST MONASTERIES IN KAM I AT KANZE 71 plastering them on the house walls seemed to be the principalindustry, we reached the large Geliigba monastery of JoroGomba. This monastery lies on the edge of a grassy basinoverlooking a small lake swarming with wild fowl; to shootthem, however, would have been to cause grave offence to the lamas of the gomba^. Passing Joro, the trail tops a riseand emerges on to rolling grass-lands now patched withsnow. Here we saw many gazelle {gozva in Tibetan, chitziiin Szechuanese). A long pull up hill with occasional shortdescents brought us to the top of the She Chu-Yalungdivide, only about 13,000 feet high. As one tops the lastrise, the great range beyond the Yalung bursts into view, aglittering mass of ice, snow and rock, culminating in thesnow-clad mass of Kawalori (peak of everlasting snow),a sacred mountain of Nyarong, and one of the highest peaksin Eastern Tibet. This great range is here pierced by theYalung, and glimpses

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