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Mekong it passes the Do-tse La on the Yakalo-

Garthok road (a little south of the old border as

shown on Davies's map) and then crosses the

Bum La (in Chinese Chesun-ling-Ch'ing-shan),

between Lhandum and Pa-mu-t'ang, and follows

the divide between the Yangtze and Tsong-en

rivers as shown on Teichman's map, turning to

the north-east, as shown on the same map, to

take in the province of Derge and passing some

10 miles south of Sama, south of the Ngu-pa La.

All inside the Tibetan frontier, which extends

10 miles south of Sama, was peaceful, but the Leng-

ka-shi tribe, with whom Teichman had trouble,

were holding up the Batang Kanze road, and

Chinese soldiers could only occasionally venture

as far as Dam.

The Batang monastery had at this time

250 monks, though all did not live in it. The

abbot is the Laka Lama. He belongs to the red

sect.

On September 26 there were rumours that the

Leng-ka-shi, annoyed by the arrest of some of

their people, were going to attack the Chinese at

Litang ; that the Chantui (or Nyarong) people

were threatening to attack Ta-chien-lu from the

north-west, and that Kanze was disaffected and

wanted to be rid of the Chinese garrison. In

addition to all this the Chinese feared that the

Nanka Lama was going to attack Batang.

Pereira did not put very much faith in these

rumours. Nevertheless, there was the fact that

within the last fifteen years there had been fierce

attacks of Tibetans on Chinese and Chinese on

Tibetans with wholesale massacres and also

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