Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . YAK CARRYING CHINESE TEA ASCENDING A PASS ON THEROAD TO TIBET. IN THE SHE CHU VALLEY NEAR DAWU IX BACK IN TACHIENLU 211 seemed strangely quiet and peaceful in comparison with thestate of affairs prevailing there during our stay in Septemberand October last, when thousands of Chinese and Tibetantroops were barricaded on opposite sides of the stream withinfull view of one another, and the people in the villages alongthe Yalung plain showed us many attentions in demonstra-tio
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . YAK CARRYING CHINESE TEA ASCENDING A PASS ON THEROAD TO TIBET. IN THE SHE CHU VALLEY NEAR DAWU IX BACK IN TACHIENLU 211 seemed strangely quiet and peaceful in comparison with thestate of affairs prevailing there during our stay in Septemberand October last, when thousands of Chinese and Tibetantroops were barricaded on opposite sides of the stream withinfull view of one another, and the people in the villages alongthe Yalung plain showed us many attentions in demonstra-tion of their gratitude for the change. At Kanze we received a warm welcome from the Chinesecivil and military officials, whose only anxiety was to knowwhether the Tibetans could be relied upon to observe theterms of the truce. After resting there a day or two we re-turned to Tachienlu by the main North Road, along whichwe had originally started on our long journeys throughEastern Tibet. In places the trail was black with yak caravanscarrying tea into Tibet. The tea trade, interrupted for thebest part of a year owing to the hostilities between Szechuaneseand Tibetans, had by now re
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