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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
78 PEKING TO LHASA
last moment to Ta-chien-lu, after removing his
Christians to a place of safety. Several priests
of Batang have been massacred. And one at
Tao-fu was imprisoned by the Tibetans for sixteen
days with his arms and legs chained together.
Also his beard was pulled out.
From Meng-kung he might have taken a more
direct route by Fu-pien and the Hung-ch'iao Pass,
16,280 feet, and struck the Min River at Hsin-pau-
kuan on the road to Choni, an important town
about 100 miles south of Lan-chow, but he only
heard of this route after he had made all his
preparations to go by Kwan-hsien. So he left
Meng-kung on January 19 for that town. The
country was now fairly well inhabited. At Kuan-
chai, a village of fifty-five families, mostly Chinese,
there lived the Tu-ssu of the Tibetan tribe, the
Ooje. His palace was a curious square building
with a high tower in the centre and buildings
resembling temples on the south-east corners.
The courtyard was small and interesting. It
looked very old and had some fine wood carving.
The architecture was like old Saxon. Pereira
climbed up uneven stairs to a reception-room where
the Tu-ssu, dressed like a Chinese, received him.
But as he could not speak Chinese, Pereira soon
took his leave.
The next day he reached Jih - lung - kuan,
11,050 feet, and here on the following day he had
to leave the valley of the Hsiao-chin and ascend
a tributary to the south in order to cross the
Pa-lang (generally written Balan on maps), the
range dividing the Ta-tu and Min Rivers. A stiff
climb brought him to a solitary inn which bore
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