Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . have now fallen into disuse. Continuing down the valleyin a north-easterly direction, we passed the Nyarong-Kanzeborder at a narrow place where the cliffs close in on tibe river,and eventually debouched after a long days march on to thesloping plain of Rongbatsa, a westerly continuation of theYalung valley plain. At the mouth of the gorge we were met by the TibetanGeneral, the Chungrang Dabon, rather a startling figure inthese out-of-the-way parts, as he was dressed exactl
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . have now fallen into disuse. Continuing down the valleyin a north-easterly direction, we passed the Nyarong-Kanzeborder at a narrow place where the cliffs close in on tibe river,and eventually debouched after a long days march on to thesloping plain of Rongbatsa, a westerly continuation of theYalung valley plain. At the mouth of the gorge we were met by the TibetanGeneral, the Chungrang Dabon, rather a startling figure inthese out-of-the-way parts, as he was dressed exactly like anIndian sportsman in riding breeches, tweed coat and sun was accompanied by a Lhasa official called the Kenchiing ^ See Plate XLI. Crossing this pass again four or five months later, wefound its northern face covered with a sheet of frozen ice and snow, and hadliterally to slide down; on this occasion we halted for a night at Darando,thus dividing up the distance between Dzenko and Rongbatsa into threemarches, which makes the passage of the big range mudi easier. PLATE XLI ;^ .-:«#S*^W^^ *•-l^.;.
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