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Your man since the Mahun
rebellion 30 years ago. Old
demonials & vacant places
are still evidence in T of
of the former great populace.
here.) Tali fell after
the 2 pass, Shari Ndan (up),
+ Karinga Kum (down) were
taken by the Chinese troops,
than the people in Tali were
massacred without offering
resistance.
13 The Majors did not come
until 9 AM to take the load,
some did not get started
until 11:30. Our loads numbered
26. The beasts, were smaller horses
smaller than much inferior to our
Li-chiang caravans. The day was
pretty cloudy cold & windy.
People were wet on the way, some
with merchants' stuff but chiefly
wood caravans. The only game we
saw was a large flock of geese
in a rice field near Tali-fu.
We met quite many Tibetans with
groups of women in brown & lanos
in red travelling on foot in small