Show A FA P cabar before entering tile the bare unsheltered plateau of tibet the rond road to chaa winds through seven miles of pine forest recalls some of the most moat beauta ul valleys of 0 switzerland the wood line ends abruptly atter after that there la Is nothing but barrenness anil and desolation ile there are long strips 40 of f R arable f able land on each side ot of tile the road an am villages every two or three miles the holds fields are and within stone voll scattered on the ore are stone built houses with tow ow overhanging eaves caves u and I 1 d long tiles each weighed d down 0 N y n vi with ith a gray eray boulder li one might imagine oneself lit in Kander or lauterbron nou noo only lofty praying fla lae gsand sand mint mini A chata fort walls brightly painted with pictures and inscriptions dispel the illusion two sears ago I 1 mas as in the katung valley at the same earne elevation its as the gorge beloff caussa which I 1 nm am now describing and not a days march from it IL the ground was carpeted carp ofed eCed with flowers besides the he mulas I 1 counted eight ditre reat kinds of 0 them and gentians slid and an emones and ce cc candines lan dines anil and wild s and irises there men the rhododendrons rhododendron i glowing like foal coal through tigh the pine forest the rocks rock a were bere coated with green and jellow elow moss which formed a bed for the dwarf rhododendron hushes then in fiill full flower white while find and crimson slid green and every anic tile between a dark broo n and a llant sulphur yellott not here and there but jostling one another for nooks and crannies in the rock soon after this letter lettjr reaches aou QU aho 1 ho transformation aill all lime begun the present cheerless conditions will havo ceased of icy v inda aud a wintry landscape lands caie there will be warmth said and berins sunshine yet families at home all be forming their impressions at 0 the talley alley from letters written now by I 1 their heir friends now in the force to dis disillusion illusion them I 1 cannot do letter better than to recall my im am of 0 the alley balley as I 1 entered it ja in tiny nay two bearis ago the valley lied f A ft native british standard bearer with invading fence for me an intangible fascination indescribable became becar nse it was illogical certainly the light that ii lafiA on oil all these colors colori seemed to me softer than ebery cry day sunshine and the opening fallago of 0 birch and larch seemed to vie me more delicate and varied than on common ground perhaps it was that I 1 was appici aching the forbidden to land but what irony that this seductive valley should be the approach to the tb e bare and unsheltered ered land in asia four miles from rom chumbl the road passes through the second military wall all at the chinese village or of golborg Gob Borg sorg chubby little children run out and sa ea iuta one v alth ith the cry ot of tile the first alien word in their infant vo 1 the omen of 0 the valley wear ear a distinctive hat flat green cap with a L red patch in front which harmonizes with their a coarse urick brick red of which the primal an fn redl ants are dirt and cutch e u ly called piss blood slid and the natural ruddiness A t a healthy outdoor life in a cold elli mate A procession ot of these Is comely and picturesque at a hundred yards A little further on the road la Is a large vi village ilage where the pre ing nags flags tire are as aa thick as masts in a dockyard here one sees anu unu unwieldy feldy wooden frames hanging f rom poles fifty or sixty feet high they are arc used we ave wore told for or Ill illuming lions ioni la in time but the tha general impression or of the farce otter after a good deal ot of conjecture was that they were credits cradles ot of correction for or refractory children A mile farther a sudden turn in the valley brings one to a level plain a phenomenally list flat piece of ground where one can race two miles along the straight gautha which lies five miles north ne W 0 J I 1 camp of british mission of nearly halt way be tween chulbi and charf must bo be added to the map mail A week or two to ago the place was deserted and unnamed it did not boast a stogie single sow herds hut but now it Is a busy camp and likely to be a permanent halting place on the road to plarl the camp L P bioli om lies in a deep moss mors carpeted hollow w I 1 with no apparent egress on three sides it Is linked flanked ly by rocky dins densely forested with pine and silver birch on the fourth rises an abrupt wall ot of rod rock which Is suffused with a glow of amber light an hour before sunset the ammo chu which is hero here nothing but a 20 foot stream frozen over at night bisected the crimp camp tie the valley Is warm and sheltered find and escapes much of the bitter wind that never spares chumbl after dinner one prefers the open air and a crimp camp fire officers who have been up tip the line before turn into their tents re gret fretfully fully for they know that they are as baling ing goodby good by to comfort and win woj not enjoy the genial vi warmth of a good ire fire again until they have crossed the bleak Thi table lands and reached the sparsely wooded valley of gy anise |