A Sturdy amd Independent Tibetan Principality Founded on Feudatism and the Divine Right of Kings By Feovo 7
(Trans-Asia Photographic Scientific Expedition)
One frequently hears China spoken of as still living in the! middle ages, and throughout the. vast area of the whole interior one is constantly coming across scenes end situations vividly suggestive of similar conditions that prevailed in Europe hundreds of years ago. But. then again one is also. suddenly brought into contact with some 20th. century innovation—a line of telegraph poles, a led mule with a load of canvas bags labelled "Postes once. shatters the romantic illusion and brings one back with a jar to a realization of the times, But there fare remote sections within this land that have defied all incursions of! modern civilization; where life still' goes on to-day as it did in the days chen our own ancestors were charging one another in steel clad armour, or clanking over drawbridges. bent on some adventure at their Lord's! behest. Nor is it necessary to seek rich pasturage and naturally defended by "great rock crowned mountain barriers, gave up their nomadic lives and banded together under various chiefs to form a num
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