Mr. Yao, another young official, at present on tour in Hsikang discovering the possibility of motor roads. This, compared with every other adventure, is a most daring enterprise, Between Tachienlu and Batang there are thirteen high passes, the lowest of which is some 14,500 feot above sea level. This would entail tremendous work in road building and involve the government in considerable expense. However, the main north road to Lhasa is not impossible and might be developed into a motor highway. Beyond the Jedo, the first pass out of Tachienlu, the road practically level all the way to Derge fu the left bank of the Yangtze. This stretch of country would present very' ttle dimiculty and passes through the most populous part of Hsikang and touches several wealthy and influential. lamaseries.
Another expedition on the frontier this summer was a Chinese survey party, Maps like perambulators sometimes go out of date und frequently demand read} sting, This Chinese survey party spot some three months on the border and travelled considerably during that time. Jack Young and his party found them patiently working their way down the Nya hoping to map the river as far Nya-chu-ka, This was a most dar-Ing adventure as Nyarong is very precipitous country. "As precaution when travelling through rough and dangerous country some of the Chin-fosse surveyors married young Tibetan ils, a wise move where there is a language dimeulty. Some of the Chinese surveyors ventured into the lawless Shangtrin country and were, Indeed, fortunate to get out alive again, Of all the wild, turbulent un~ surveyed country forming Eastern Tibet Shangtrin and the Golok are probably the most dangerous to travel {in and, therefore, the most dificult to survey. That these young surveyors, were able to do what they did is simply marvellous, Trus. it was only beginning but no doubt the work, will be continued again next summer.
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