Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . buildings lie on the hillsidebeyond the river, which is here spanned by a good cantileverbridge. The ex-Chief still resides in his castle, part of which,however, is used bv the Chinese as a rest-house. There are no signs of spring yet, and not a vestige of greenis to be seen on the mountains. Eastern Tibet, like NorthChina, is a country of two seasons, winter and summer. March 28. At Kanze. Near Driwo the road leaves the She Chu, which comesdown from the unknown grass coun
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . buildings lie on the hillsidebeyond the river, which is here spanned by a good cantileverbridge. The ex-Chief still resides in his castle, part of which,however, is used bv the Chinese as a rest-house. There are no signs of spring yet, and not a vestige of greenis to be seen on the mountains. Eastern Tibet, like NorthChina, is a country of two seasons, winter and summer. March 28. At Kanze. Near Driwo the road leaves the She Chu, which comesdown from the unknown grass country in the north (andmore immediately from a district called Tongkor, wherethere is an important monastery), and turns up a gully tothe west. Passing a village, where the drying of cowpats(chozva, the universal fuel where wood is unobtainable) by Returning along this road a year later we found Chinese proclamationsposted calling upon the Tibetans to arrest the Draga Lama, who had escapedfrom Tachienlu and had fled to the country of the Golok nomads in thenorth, where he was safe from Chinese interference. PLATE XVII. JOHO GOMBA, WITH PARTLY FROZEN LAKE BELOW »; f
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