We arrived in Tingpo at 7.30 p.m. and our baggage about an hour later. The silver discs and frontal lock" of the Litang women were again in evid ence, and upon inguiry it was found that' the Litang territory had been 375 entered about forty li above the Settlement. Tingpo is a pretty, compact, prosperous Settlement with a population of 100 families. Tongchong thirty li to the East or North-east, supplements the altitude is about 11,000 feet (193° B.P. 65° T.) the climate is rin and a second crop of turnips From Tingpo to Hochn is really two stages, one seventy li and the other fifty, but we accomplished it with comparative ese in one day. We left Tingpo rather late and did not arrive in Uenken, the first division of the journey till well after noon. The road was along the left bank of the river with oak jungle more or less always evidence. As a rule, also, we were never out of sight of the fields and houses of the Tibetans. Uenken is a" village of perhaps sixty or seventy families in a stifling well-cultivated basin, About twenty li above s road branches off to the Riihii or Tsongtsah, which is only two days distant and credited with population of 3,000 families. South again of Riihii, and occupying ® posi tion between Atuentsi and Hsiang-cheng is a district known as Notsung with a lamasery of 400 monks population of 360 families. Accor to the official at Batang these people have not formally submitted to China, and rumour is busy with accounts of projected punitive expedition bably the districts of Bomi, Rill Tsongtsah spoken of at Kongla, are, if not different names for the same region, at least under the same Sinao or headman.
The main rond which leaves the Taso Road at Cenken leads east up a pretty ravine by an easy ascent to a forest clad summit, and then down through a wooded valley to the head of the Hech plain. The pass known as the Peizongls may be 12,000 feet above sea level, but owing to my escort's originality, the hypsometer can was utterly destroyed by being placed right in the centre or a blazing fire. How I longed for a layman to explain to the careless rogue the enormity of his offence! The road from Tingpo is good and would present no difficulty to pack animals heavily laden. The country is well cultivated in the valleys, and forests of groves and pines and oak cover the hills.
Hocha or Rata is an important place with " population of 100 families and a lamasery with 400 lamas nestling in the hill at the upper end of the valley. By relays of turnips the hypmometer can was 60 far mended that an altitude was taken, the water boiling at 191.2° F. and the temperature 63.° We took advantage of September 15 being Sunday to rest ourselves. Just aft.r breakfast we were visited by the Sinao, a native of Chautiu, who controls about 400 families scattered in Tingpo, Uenken, and Tongchong. The main roads from Batang and Litang in st Hocha, and until lately all the Chinese trade with Hsiang-of that region strenuously retaxing cheng was transacted here, the Tibetans
fifty i distant, wan always carefully nearer approach, The Mi Vriginal from
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