Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE BASHU PLATEAU FROM THE MEKONG-SALWEEN DIVIDE (14,800 FEET) ON THE CHAMDO-YUNNAN ROAD. HEADWATERS OF THE YU CHU RIVER ON THE BASHU PLATEAU,CHAMDO-YUNNAN ROAD AT JYEDAM 183 our right hand. Here the journey began to get interesting;for, on reaching the top of the spur, which was only about athousand feet above the valley, we found ourselves, to mygreat surprise, looking down on to another river, flowing ina precisely similar gorge, parallel to
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE BASHU PLATEAU FROM THE MEKONG-SALWEEN DIVIDE (14,800 FEET) ON THE CHAMDO-YUNNAN ROAD. HEADWATERS OF THE YU CHU RIVER ON THE BASHU PLATEAU,CHAMDO-YUNNAN ROAD AT JYEDAM 183 our right hand. Here the journey began to get interesting;for, on reaching the top of the spur, which was only about athousand feet above the valley, we found ourselves, to mygreat surprise, looking down on to another river, flowing ina precisely similar gorge, parallel to and only a mile or sodistant from the Mekong. This turned out to be the river ofRiwoche (here called the She Chu), which is shown on Britishmaps of Tibet as flowing south-west from Enda to join theSalween. Chinese maps rightly make it a tributary of theMekong, which it joins below Drentsa Druka, at a placecalled Tsunpo. Descending into the valley of the She Chu,which is eroded down to within a few hundred feet of thelevel of the Mekong, we crossed over by a bridge, andmarched down its right bank to a place called Jyedam, con-sisting of a number of farms in an open cultivated valleytogether with the Podrang of the local Tibet
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