Report On a Visit to Sikhim And the Thibetan Frontier in October, November, And December, 1873
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The chief exports from Thibet by the Nepal and Ladakh channels are blankets, musk, yaks' tails, borax, ponies, gold, and silver. The Cashmeree merchants are said to send gold and silver to India, in payment for the article imported by them, in preference to exporting any of the bulkier products of Thibet. Gold, the amount of which exported is comparatively insignificant, is almost always the produce of the country, and sent as bullion. I was told that the silver goes in the form of rupees, and ...that it has for the most part been imported Through Nepal and Ladakh. 48 REPORT ON A VISIT TO from Assam by the Towang route, the Thibetans who trade on that frontier as a rule taking money in exchange for their goods. And with Bhootan and Darjeeling. The chief articles imported into Thibet from Bhootan and Darjeeling are rice, goor, and sugar ; various sorts of dried fruits ; tobacco, in leaf and for the hookah; stick lac, madder, indigo, red and white sandal-wood, ivory, rhinoceros-horns, peacocks' tails, and red and white endi cloth.
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