Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . COMMENCEMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION WORK ON TllH CHAMDOMONASTERY AFTER THE TIBETAN OCCUPATION SIX YEARS LATER VII RETURN TO CHAMDO 179 the most terrible of outrages against his religion and hisfellow countr}aiien. 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 YemdoThere is a coracle ferry here,
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . COMMENCEMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION WORK ON TllH CHAMDOMONASTERY AFTER THE TIBETAN OCCUPATION SIX YEARS LATER VII RETURN TO CHAMDO 179 the most terrible of outrages against his religion and hisfellow countr}aiien. 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 YemdoThere is a coracle ferry here, and a road leads thence west-wards to the Tibetan district of Bashii and the Salween was the route followed by the Chinese troops fromDraya who crossed the Mekong in an attempt to invadeTibet, with 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
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