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gorge. The river is then crossed twice by log

bridges. At 6/ miles is Kum-tzu-ding, a village

of fourteen families, where fifty or sixty Chinese

soldiers were quartered. At 7 miles the top of

the Kung-tzu-la, 11,090 feet, was reached. The

descent was steep by a stony path leading among

firs down a narrow valley. And at 131 miles the

Yangtze valley was reached, and the road led up

it for another 14 mile to Ganra (Chinese Kung La),

7997 feet, about 150 feet above the river. It is

a village of eight houses, and seventy Chinese

soldiers were stationed in it. It had been chilly

on the top of the pass, but down below it was quite

hot and fine.

The history of the feud between the Nanka

Lama and the Gunka Lama was this. In the

month of May the former attacked the latter in j

the Tsong-en district, but the Gunka Lama, with

the aid of Captain Wong, drove him off. Later

the remaining Chinese companies from Ganra and

Drubanang joined the Gunka Lama. But in

August he and the Chinese had a quarrel and the

men fired at but missed the Lama, who then fled

with his people to the hills ; and the soldiers,

having in consequence nobody to furnish them It

with supplies, had to retire to their old quarters.

Thereupon the Gunka Lama returned and went

to Lhandum to see the Markham Ti-jei, who advised

him to make it up with the Chinese. About

September 13 the Nanka Lama, keeping his feud

with the Gunka Lama, raided the villages of Konpu

and Botsa, 6 or 7 miles below Chung-tsa village. to

And this is how matters stood when Pereira passed

through. The Sogong monastery, the head-

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