LXXXIII At an unpleasant pace--Drawing near the cavalcade--A picturesque sight--A shot fired at me--Terrible effects of the spikes along my spine--The rope breaks--An ill omen--A second shot misses me--Arrows--The end of my terrible ride Pp. 393-397 LXXXIV Intense pain--Hustled to the execution-ground--Stretched and tied--Thirsting for blood--A parade of torturing appliances--The music--The _Taram_ Pp. 398-401 LXXXV Bleeding all over--Insulted and spat upon--"Kill him!"--Urging on the executioner--Refusal to stoop--An unpleasant sword exercise--The execution suspended Pp. 402-405 LXXXVI Mansing arrives--A pretence of killing him--Our execution postponed--Fed by the Lamas Pp. 406-407 LXXXVII Happiness checked--Stretched on the rack--Mansing shares my fate--Drenched and in rags--An unsolved mystery Pp. 408-410 LXXXVIII Mansing partially untied after twelve hours on the rack--Numbed--How the brain works under such circumstances--My scientific instruments--The end of my photographic plates--A paint-box accused of occult powers--An offer refused--Courtesy and cruelty combined Pp. 411-412 LXXXIX An unknown article in Tibet--My sponge bewitched--A Lama fires my Martini-Henry--The rifle bursts Pp. 413-415 XC A consultation--Untied from the rack--The most terrible twenty-four hours of my life--I lose the use of my feet--Circulation returning--Intense pain--Sports Pp. 416-417 XCI A great relief--The Pombo's attentions--A weird hypnotic dance Pp. 418-420 XCII Compliments exchanged--A poisoned drink proffered--In acute pain--Uncertainty as to our fate--Working the oracle--My webbed fingers Pp. 421-423 XCIII Our lives to be spared--An unpleasant march--Chanden Sing still alive--A sleepless night--Towards the frontier--Long and painful marches--How we slept at night--A map drawn with blood Pp. 424-428 XCIV South of the outward journey--Severity of our guard--Ventriloquism and its effects--Terrible but instructive days--The Southern source of the Brahmaputra--Leaving Yutzang Pp. 429-430 XCV Easier times--Large encampments--Suffocating a goat--A Tarjum's encampment--Tokchim--Old friends--Musicians--Charity Pp. 431-434 XCVI Towards Mansarowar--Mansing's vision--Bathing in Mansarowar Pp. 435-437 XCVII Suna--Wilson and the Political Peshkar across the frontier--A messenger--Our progress stopped--Diverting us over the Lumpiya Pass--Condemned to certain death--We attack our guard--Lapsang and the Jong Pen's private secretary--A document--Nearing Kardam--Retracing our steps--Dogmar Pp. 438-444 XCVIII A Commotion--The arrival of an army--Elected General-in-chief--How we were to slaughter the Jong Pen's soldiers--My men lay down their arms--Towards Taklakot--Delaling and Sibling--Taklakot at last Pp. 445-449