Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . t cultivation or houses. Dorko Gomba is saidto be the ruins of a big and important monastery which wasdestroyed by raiders from Hsiangcheng in i9i6or 1917 andis now uninhabited. Nawak/i appears to lie across theNyarong border, though how far from the cultivated valleyof the Yalung, no one seeme^i to know. On the next day we left Uonged and marched down thepicturesque forested valley of the Ngii Chu to Beyii, wherewe were met by a Tibetan official, sent down by the Daboncom
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . t cultivation or houses. Dorko Gomba is saidto be the ruins of a big and important monastery which wasdestroyed by raiders from Hsiangcheng in i9i6or 1917 andis now uninhabited. Nawak/i appears to lie across theNyarong border, though how far from the cultivated valleyof the Yalung, no one seeme^i to know. On the next day we left Uonged and marched down thepicturesque forested valley of the Ngii Chu to Beyii, wherewe were met by a Tibetan official, sent down by the Daboncommanding at De-ge Gonchen to escort us through Tibetanterritory to the Chinese border. February 20. At Tachie^nlu. From Be)ai we returned by the road which we had pre-viously followed over the high Mizo La to Horbo andDzenko, and for the third time in our journeys crossed thebig divide to Rongbatsa. The prosperous Rongbatsa plain ^ From the name it is evident that this place Hes at the confluence of twostreams, and it is apparently situated at the junction of the roads from Beyii,Litang, Nyarong and Dzenko. PLATE LVII.
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