Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . 00 feet, across a rocky spur trending west-wards from the main watershed range. From this pass wedescended for several hours march, at first through a grassyvalley and then through a limestone gorge with perpen-dicular cliff^s, debouching finally on to the Dza Chu at thehamlet of Kanda, elevation about 12,000 feet. This place consists of half a dozen hovels surrounded bya few stony fields; but it is pleasant to come upon trees,houses and cultivation again after wandering f
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . 00 feet, across a rocky spur trending west-wards from the main watershed range. From this pass wedescended for several hours march, at first through a grassyvalley and then through a limestone gorge with perpen-dicular cliff^s, debouching finally on to the Dza Chu at thehamlet of Kanda, elevation about 12,000 feet. This place consists of half a dozen hovels surrounded bya few stony fields; but it is pleasant to come upon trees,houses and cultivation again after wandering for so manydays in the bleak and empty grass country. We have, indeed,scarcely seen a tree since leaving the Yalung valley weeksago. The barley here has been sown, and is even beginningto sprout in places, almost the first sign of green we haveseen on our journey; on the same latitude in Szechuan thewheat is now being harvested. Silver pheasants and part-ridges are abundant in the neighbourhood. A cultivated valley such as this is called rotig by theTibetans, and is regarded as a land flowing with milk and Will. CAMP ON THE CRASS COUNTRY OF THE UPPER MEKONG BASIN
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