In person the potentate is disappointing. He is too Chinese to please hie subjects and too civilized to fit into hie setting. As his cousin remarked to me 18 months after my meeting with the prince: "He is neither Chinese, nor Tibetan, neither priest-nor soldier, neither man nor woman, but he has 8 soft way and a black heart."
Choni town lies very fittingly under the shadow of a great monastery. Below are mud filth, ignorance and poverty. Above are
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