Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . WEST OVER THE MEKONG-SALWEEX DIVIDE FROM NEARDI IN LOWER TSAWARONG. SUMMIT OF THE DI (15,000 FEET) IN WINTER, THE PASS ACROSSTHE Yl CHI -MEKONG DIVIDE NEAR VENCHING VIII AT YENCHING 191 territory of the Batang Deba, and was made into a districtby Chao Erh-feng. The district really consists of nothingbeyond the bottom of the canyon of the Mekong for a fewmiles above and below the salt wells, to which the place owesits existence as an official centre. The wells
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . WEST OVER THE MEKONG-SALWEEX DIVIDE FROM NEARDI IN LOWER TSAWARONG. SUMMIT OF THE DI (15,000 FEET) IN WINTER, THE PASS ACROSSTHE Yl CHI -MEKONG DIVIDE NEAR VENCHING VIII AT YENCHING 191 territory of the Batang Deba, and was made into a districtby Chao Erh-feng. The district really consists of nothingbeyond the bottom of the canyon of the Mekong for a fewmiles above and below the salt wells, to which the place owesits existence as an official centre. The wells are on both sidesof, and almost on a level with, the river, and become floodedevery summer when the water rises. The brine is drawn upout of the wells, which are quite shallow, and is evaporatedin the usual flat pans. The salt produced supplies North-western Yunnan, Batang, Markam and Tsawarong. TheChinese troops and officials are mainly dependent on therevenues they derive from taxing it as it leaves the wells tothe extent of two rupees per mule load. As a result of thisincome they are much better off here than anywhere else inChinese Tibet. The foreign-controlled Chinese Salt Adminis-tratio
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