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140 PEKING TO LHASA

a village of twenty-two families, with three

Chinese in charge of salt. Bay-ja lies in rolling

grass country, and the salt works are on the

opposite side of the Say-shung Chu. Here Pereira

rested for a day. He was travelling on a route

probably east of Kozloff's, whose route he thought

must lie between his own and Teichman's. The

Tsedosi of Kozloff is probably Bando—at least

the latter is at the confluence of the Ba Chu and

Dze Chu.

On July 20 he ascended an open valley for

4 miles and then gradually ascended for another 4 to the Jyu La, 13,180 feet, with a rocky range, 1500 feet high, on the left. This pass, like the

Cham La, is on the divide between the Mekong

and the Ba Chu. On the far side the way lay

down a pleasant grass valley between grass hills from 500 to 800 feet high. There was one village

in the valley and some barley fields. There was,

too, a wealth of wildflowers, making large patches

of blue and yellow. And for the first time in

Tibet Pereira saw frogs and grasshoppers.

About 5 miles from the pass the Lung Chu

from the west and the Do Chu from the south-

east unite and flow north-east into the Mekong.

He forded the Do Chu, which was 20 yards wide

and 2 feet deep, to Panchang, a hamlet of six

houses, and there he encamped as usual on the

clean mud roof terrace of a house. The headman

came to meet him with palms extended and tongue

put out.

The inhabitants said they belonged to the

Durung tribe under a T'u-ssu, who is himself

under the king of Nang - then who lives at Ma-

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