Colonel Younghusband took up his abode in the central
room overlooking the courtyard. From immediately
above his window ran many ropes on which huge sun-
blinds should have rested. But these, with all the
other furniture of the house, had been taken away
by the young representative of the Lha-lu family before
In the Lha-lu gardens, Lhasa.
we came to occupy the family mansion. This clearance
was done at our request, as we had, or could obtain,
sufficient furniture for our own needs, and we did not
wish to run the risk of damaging our host’s property.
Almost the only thing left in the house was a cheap
pendulum clock made by the Ansonia clock company.
These very rare recurrences of Western civilisation
never influenced the intensely Oriental seclusion of
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