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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 |
144 PEKING TO LHASA
bridge consisting of three piles in the stream and
two on the sides, and a quarter of a mile beyond
is the dirty little village of Chamdo, 10,500 feet,
situated on a narrow wedge of land at the junction
of the Ngom Chu and the Dze Chu. The whole
of Chamdo turned out to see Pereira, the women
wearing wonderful head-dresses, the men with big
ear-rings in the left ear, and small boys grinning
and saluting in English fashion.
Chamdo is 2581 miles from Jye-kundo and
793 miles from Tangar.
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