Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . all pass, the trail descends a ravine, which bringsone down to a lower valley where houses and cultivation areagain met with at the Sajya monastery of Tretso consists of a small Podrang and a few scatteredfarms lying just round the corner above the confluence oftwo streams flowing from the south-west and north-west the Tibetans seizing the heights all round and compelling them to surrenderafter a short fight. An account of this incident, written by the Comman
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . all pass, the trail descends a ravine, which bringsone down to a lower valley where houses and cultivation areagain met with at the Sajya monastery of Tretso consists of a small Podrang and a few scatteredfarms lying just round the corner above the confluence oftwo streams flowing from the south-west and north-west the Tibetans seizing the heights all round and compelling them to surrenderafter a short fight. An account of this incident, written by the Commandantof the Chinese force, is given on p. 55. ^ South of Jyekundo the Yangtze-Mekong divide is a big snow range; thisrange, however, crosses the Yangtze below Dengko, and in De-ge and Gonjothe Yangtze-Mekong divide consists of rolling grass country and elevatedplateaux. - There are said to be only some 550 families in Hlato, mostly are five jfyelbo, or Kings, in Eastern Tibet, namely, Chala, De-ge,Lintsung, Hlato and Nangchen; the other states being ruled by hereditaryofficials (B6n or Deba). PLATE XXXVII. .>Ji^ CAMP AT DORKA, NEAR CHAMDO-DE-GE BOUNDARY
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