In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment, torture and ultimate releaseLandor, Arnold Henry Savage
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In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel
LXVIII
Washing-day--A long march--_Kiang_ and antelope--Benighted--The
purchase of a goat--Ramifications of the Brahmaputra--A
detour--Through a swamp--Mansing again lost and found Pp. 342-345
LXIX
The alarm given--Our bad manners--A peaceful settlement--A large
river--Gigantic peak--Again on marshy soil Pp. 346-348
LXX
Another Tibetan encampment--Uncontrollable animals--A big
stream--Washed away--In dreadful suspense--Rescuing the yak--Diving
at great altitudes and its effects--How my two followers got
across--A precarious outlook and a little comfort Pp. 349-351
LXXI
Hungry and worn--A sense of humour--Two buckets of milk--No food to
be obtained--Chanden Sing and Mansing in a wretched state--Their
fidelity--Exhaustion Pp. 352-354
LXXII
Eighty black tents--Starved--Kindly natives--Presents--Ando and his
promises--A Friendly Lama--A low pass--My plans Pp. 355-357
LXXIII
Strange noises--Ando the traitor--Purchasing provisions and
ponies--A handsome pony--Decoyed away from my tent and
rifles--Pounced upon--The fight--A prisoner Pp. 358-361
LXXIV
Chanden Sing's plucky resistance--Mansing secured--A signal--A
treacherous Lama--Confiscation of baggage--Watches, compasses and
aneroids--Fear and avidity--The air-cushion--Dragged into the
encampment Pp. 362-366
LXXV
A warning to my men--Calm and coolness--The Pombo's tent--Chanden
Sing cross-examined and flogged Pp. 367-369
LXXVI
Led before the tribunal--The Pombo--Classical Tibetan beyond
me--Chanden Sing lashed--The Lamas puzzled--A sudden change in the
Pombo's attitude Pp. 370-373
LXXVII
My note-books and maps--What the Lamas wanted me to say--My
refusal--Anger and threats--Ando the traitor--Chanden Sing's
heroism--A scene of cruelty--Rain Pp. 374-376
LXXVIII
A high military officer--A likely friend--A soldier and not a
Lama--His sympathy--Facts about the Tibetan army Pp. 377-379
LXXIX
Sarcasm appreciated--Kindness--A change for the worse--The place for
an Englishman--Vermin--A Tibetan prayer Pp. 380-382
LXXX
The Rupun as a friend--Treated with respect and deference--Fed by
the Rupun and soldiers--Improving my knowledge of Tibetan Pp.
383-385
LXXXI
A bearer of bad news--Marched off to the mud-house--Mansing--Insults
and humiliations--Iron handcuffs instead of ropes--The Rupun's
sympathy--No more hope--In the hands of the mob Pp. 386-389
LXXXII
A pitiful scene--A struggle to get to Chanden Sing--Brutally
treated--A torturing saddle--Across country at a gallop--A spirited
pony--Sand deposits and hills--Speculation--More horsemen coming
towards us Pp. 390-392
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