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Over the next two years, cartographers for both sides proposed five different boundaries, synthesized in a 'five-coloured map' for the south, in the Wa states, and another 'five coloured map' for the north, west of the Salween. An 1897 treaty, in which the Qing court granted the British a trading post in the border city of Tengyue, had left this issue unresolved, specifying only that a fixed boundary would be surveyed in the future. His Chinese counterpart was Shi Hongshao, the new trade commissioner (daotai) for west Yunnan. He had recently been appointed the British representative to a joint boundary commission charged with fixing the northern border between China and Burma. Litton walked up the Salween, or Nu, intending to draw a line between two empires. It now resides with 1,114 other dongba manuscripts in the Staatsbibliothek in Marburgh, Germany. Joseph Rock bought it in the early 1930s in the Lijiang valley. The manuscript titled Lònv was written to be read at a funeral for a child. The tree on the right is the word nv, which designates a ritual effigy. The left side is the word lò, meaning 'to cross over,' the first syllable of lòk'ö, to cross a rope bridge. The composition within the frame is this word in what is now known as dongba script. The drawing is from the title page of a hand-written manuscript called Lònv. The rope is stretched between two trees the bamboo runner and inverted human figure are clearly depicted a simple tree stands to the right the whole is surrounded by a square frame. The drawing looks almost like a cartoon-strip version of the photograph.

At that time, in the confident opinion of the Royal Geographical Society president, the Salween remained the last great riverine puzzle on earth, its northern reaches yet unexplored by any European. The back is stamped with the photographer's name, George Forrest, and the date, 1905. 1 It is filed in the archives of the Royal Geographical Society with many other images of suspension bridges over the great rivers that run in parallel gorges through northwest Yunnan: bridges of cane, ropes and planks, timbers and iron chains. Litton's secret report to the British Foreign Office on his journey to the Upper Salween River. The photograph was included in Acting Consul G.

The edges of the strands are sharp, so the crossing is painful as well as physically demanding. Having plummeted to a point over the river's center, he will haul himself to the opposite bank, hand over hand. Leather straps bind him to a half-cylinder of bamboo that slides on a rope of twisted bamboo strands greased with yak butter.

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