Mandeville made a remarkable find, which he later presented to _the museum attached to the West China Union University. When travelling) over the Zhara pass he approached a lake some 15,000 feet high and in the mud of which he noticed a number of old Chinese coins. Digging. these up he came on some pieces of old! armour and some arrow heads. These hho brought back to Tachienlu caus-Ing Immense interest in the city. At present they are quite mysterious but one story is that in the attack] fon Gada, one day from the Zhara, the Tibetans or the Chinese may have offered them as an offering to the! mountain god who has his dwelling] on the high snow peak above the lake. The Tibetans revere and worship their mountains gods, no moun-fain in Eastern Tibet. being without a local deity or @ local name, und! no doubt this may account for me
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