The Border Administration are not entirely to blame. For the carrying on of frontier affairs there is released monthly from the Szechuan salt administration the sum of $40,000, some say $80,000. But as Tachienlu is 12 hard travel-ug days from the "receipt of castoms" and as that unfortunate Face has more people waiting there than those engaged work the salt, what reaches the border is sometimes nil a times less. The Border Administration simply just go on, funds or no funds.
The poor Tibetan merchants now ical they have made a mistake and that they ought to have carried out their threat to leave the frontier and retire towards the interior, if only to see what the Chinese abthorities would do, By submitting
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