reported to be sufficient to overawe the most insubordinate
of lamas, but the decaying stuffed beasts
that hung from the roof and the dingy demons painted
on the walls were scarcely as horrible as the common
blue and scarlet guardians of religion who protect the
entrance to every gompa. A dragon’s skin was pointed
T h e Lha-kang of the Palkhor choide.
out to me. It was, perhaps, no bad imitation. Allowing
for contraction-, the python which once owned this
covering must have been at least 25 feet long and 13
inches in diameter. Chain-armour, bows, quivers, flags,
painted cloth, skins, a few old guns and spears, and a
few little untidy altars, from which, as from every other
shrine we visited in the Lamasery, every ornament,
except the lamps, had been taken and hidden away in
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