ABSTRACT
The Tibetan governor of the Chumbi Valley, who, from his residence at the castle of Phari is styled the Phari Depon, a big, lusty, well-bred youngish man, of a good family at Gyantse called Kyi-bu. As it was found that the Jelep Pass route, even when worked to its fullest extent, with continuous lines of coolies and mules threading its difficult track, it became necessary to open another pass to supplement it. Then the crestfallen Tibetan and Chinese officials retorted that as they had formally protested against advance, they could do no more in view of our overwhelming force. At some of the villagers occasionally were seen devoutly circumambulating the holy cairn, twirling their prayer - wheels and droning out the mystic formula under the flags which flutter in the breeze. One of native surveyors was then sent down the valley, on 27th December 1902, to the Indian plains, and followed by a British officer.
