History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah And North-Eastern Frontier
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On this latter, proposals already had gone up for the Hukong valley to be properly surveyed. Cooper, however, favoured and explained the Mishmi route, which view the Chamber accepted, giving him Rs. 6,000 towards expenses of the journey. Any route lying 146 HISTORY OF UPPER ASSAM chap. through Thibet was known to be impracticable, as the Lamas monopolised the tea trade and had their own settled routes further west through Sikkim and Bhootan, and from the east (China) through Ta- chien-loo, and ...forbade private enterprise. Cooper journeyed up the Brahmaputra, reached the sacred shrine at Brahmakund, and with the help of a young Hkamti chief, got as far as the Larkong mountain, which forms a defined boundary between Assam and Thibetan ground. He got no further, however, being stopped by two Thibetan officials and constrained to give up the attempt and return. Cooper makes some interesting remarks on our border methods, and compares them with those adopted by the Chinese, condemns the blockade system to punish tribes as being calculated to produce lasting feelings of antagonism, and speaks of the wisdom of relieving the whole of northern Assam from invasion and violence by Government's system of " Posa " (which has been described before), which yearly expenditure of a few hundred pounds has produced useful and good effects.
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