. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. APPROACH TO TIBETAN COUNTRY WEST OF T AOCHOU. HALT IN A TIBETAN VILLAGE WEST OF T AOCHOU IX] FROM LANCHOU FU TO TAOCHOU 135 Old Tao Chou lies in a valley about ten li north of theTao River at an elevation of about 9000 feet in the sameregion of bare red hills with cultivated valleys as the NewCity. At the time of our visit its chief feature was the factthat the four walls enclosed nothing but a mass of ruins,the town having been completely burnt out by the WhiteWolf rebels the
. Travels of a Consular officer in North West China; with original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs. APPROACH TO TIBETAN COUNTRY WEST OF T AOCHOU. HALT IN A TIBETAN VILLAGE WEST OF T AOCHOU IX] FROM LANCHOU FU TO TAOCHOU 135 Old Tao Chou lies in a valley about ten li north of theTao River at an elevation of about 9000 feet in the sameregion of bare red hills with cultivated valleys as the NewCity. At the time of our visit its chief feature was the factthat the four walls enclosed nothing but a mass of ruins,the town having been completely burnt out by the WhiteWolf rebels the year before; we saw many a ruined city inKansu in the course of our travels—indeed in that provinceruins are the rule rather than the exception—but nothingso utterly and completely destroyed as Old Tao the city, however, there was a suburb which didnot seem to have suffered much, and here we were welllodged in a large Tibetan inn. Tao Chou is the Kansucounterpart of Tachienlu and Sungpan in Szechuan, acentre for the exchange of the products of China and Tibet,where barley meal, piece goods, tea, tobacco, and Chinesewares such as saddlery, b
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