In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet (1909) (14756252756)

Identifier: inforbiddenlanda03land (find matches)
Title: In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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riends;and as we were so anxious to visit the MansarowarLake and the great Kelas Mount, and had already ex-perienced many difficulties and great expense in com-ing so far, he agreed to eight of our party proceeding tothe sacred spots. It was impossible for him to give anofficial consent, but he repeated again that we could go ifwe wished. This news naturally delighted me. Once at Kelas, Ifelt sure I could easily find some means of going farther. On the same evening a traitor in our camp sneakedfrom under the tent in which my men were sleeping andpaid a visit to the Tarjum. There is no doubt that hetold him I was not the doctors brother, nor a Hindoopilgrim. He disclosed that I was a sahib, and that I wason my way to Lhassa. From what I heard afterwards, itseemed that the Tarjum did not quite believe his inform-ant; but, fresh doubts arising in his mind, he sent a mes-sage during the night, entreating us to return the way wecame. * If there is really a sahib in your party, whom you 190
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A PRETTY SPEECH have kept concealed from me, and I let you go on, myhead will be cut off by the Lhassa people. You are nowmy friends, and you will not allow this. Tell the Tarjum, I replied to the messenger, thathe is my friend, and I will treat him as a friend. In the morning we found thirty horsemen fully armedposted some hundred yards from our tent. To proceedwith the demoralized crowd under me, and be followedby this company, would certainly prove disastrous, and Ifelt again that some ruse was a necessity. Much to the astonishment and terror of the armedforce and their superiors, the doctor, Chanden Sing, andI, rifles in hand, walked firmly towards the contingentof sepoys. After us came the trembling coolies. TheMagbun and the Tarjums officers could hardly believetheir eyes. The soldiers quickly dismounted, and laidtheir arms down to show that they had no intention offighting. We passed them without any notice. TheMagbun ran after me. He begged me to stop one mo-ment. Dola was sum