Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . i .J THE BOUNDARY STONE ON THE BUM LA (nINGCHING SHAN),THE HISTORIC FRONTIER BETWEEN CHINA AND TIBET. BATANG, LOOKING NORTH IV THE YANGTZE NEAR BATANG 135 Chupaliing in Chinese, where the traveller crosses from theright to the left bank of the river by means of a large ferryboat. Here we found the first Chinese outposts, it havingbeen agreed that they should remain on the Batang side ofthe Yangtze as long as the Tibetans did not cross the Ning-ching Shan. These were the ge
Travels of a consular officer in eastern Tibet : together with a history of the relations between China, Tibet and India . i .J THE BOUNDARY STONE ON THE BUM LA (nINGCHING SHAN),THE HISTORIC FRONTIER BETWEEN CHINA AND TIBET. BATANG, LOOKING NORTH IV THE YANGTZE NEAR BATANG 135 Chupaliing in Chinese, where the traveller crosses from theright to the left bank of the river by means of a large ferryboat. Here we found the first Chinese outposts, it havingbeen agreed that they should remain on the Batang side ofthe Yangtze as long as the Tibetans did not cross the Ning-ching Shan. These were the gentry who were holding up andplundering passing travellers, a common failing with Chinesesoldiers in the distant interior of China (where ever since theRevolution of 1911 soldiers and brigands have but too oftenbeen synonymous terms). They had perhaps some excuse fordoing so as they had not been properly paid for years. A further half-stage up the Yangtze brought us to thehamlet of Lewa (Chinese Shuimokou). Another of ouroriginal Tachienlu ponies died on this march, when all thepasses had been surmounted and we were almost within sightof the promised land of Batang. The Y^angtze in this neighbourhood flows in a coloss
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