rock would, one thinks, have impressed the most incurious
of observers, among whom Manning, the only
Englishman who has ever reached Lhasa, is unfortunately
to be placed. Even in its existing condition, a week’s
siege and a couple of hundred casualties would have
been the price of any attempt on our part to take the
The gateway and neighbouring buildings of Gyantse jong.
successive defences by storm in the face of the slightest
really well-handled opposition.
Leaving the level of the town at the south-eastern
corner of the rock— which is 400 or 500 yards in length
— one makes one’s way up the zigzag approach hewn
out of the side of the ochreous quartz-seamed sandstone.
The roadway, after running the gauntlet of a
Gyantse jong.
THIS IS A V IEW OF THE FORT FROM WHICH W E W E R E D A IL Y
BOMBARDED FOR TWO MONTHS A T A RAN GE OF 1,350
Y A R D S . “ W IL L IAM ,” THE BIG J IN G A L , HAS JU ST B E EN
F IR E D , AN D THE PHOTOGRAPH W AS T A K E N B E FO R E HIS
b a l l r e a c h e d t h e m i s s i o n p o s t . Biscuit, dark green,
rufous ochre, grey ochre, and hazy blue.