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CHAPTER XVII.
THE MAKING OF THE NORTH-EAST FRONTIER.
PART I.: GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.
"Frontiers are the razor's edge on which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations;"[1] and of all the frontiers which have claimed the attention of British statesmen, none are comparable in interest and importance to the land frontiers of the Indian empire. When the Indian frontier is spoken of, the mind inevitably flies to the tumbled labyrinth of mountains and valleys strewn for hundreds of miles along the wild and pas-
- ↑ Lord Curzon in his Romanes Lecture, delivered at Oxford in 1907.
