a&d Bengal, by receiving.'an^lfetters -which might toe ^r|tten to him
by tte;Ck)VeKnor ©eneral, 'through fch&channel o.f the Lama. Upfeh«
ftOsately, however, the death of the Lama, ansi that ofMt- Bogle,
which hapj^gduat nearly the same lime, cjbuded this fair prqspeet,
and coiûpéeteiy frustrated every expectation wMehisad been ironed.
I am sorry to. add too, that events, of a much more recent, date,.Lave
eoiwurredto-throw almost insuperable difficulties in the. way of re-i
establishing îèur intercourse with Tibet, at least fer some cwnsiderafele
:tS»e >to,_cbme. It is well- known, that, within aïîlfe# days àft^ ihis
arrival at Pekin, the Lama was seized with a disorder, '«sOpjboaed 6o.be
the small pox, of which he died*^ and his body was soon after carried
back, with great pomp, and interred at the place'nf.-J^JibrHier
residence. Upon this occasion, the Emperor- ofLlhina wrote aüeftef
to Dalai Lama, at Lassa, then the ©Mef of all the Lama hierarchy
in Tibet, à -wpf ©f which will be found in the Appendix, Mo.ÿffi
The original of this letter was some time in the hands off?. j\miot, a
missionary at Pekin, by whom, it appears, a transcript of it. was then
made, which, ia 1783, found a place in Mémoires concernai!t ie Chit
nois, Tom. I3f. Paris. A translation uBtffis k insetted oe tlà^ Salable
©©mpilation, Mr. Dalrymple’s Oriental Repertory, Vol. II. p. 275. ■ ■■
a The detailed particulars of |he,jLaB»’s jçsjiiiey-tgi Pekln, a n d jjÿf,jwl$g|ju werç
rgktedbyPoorHngheer Gpsein, already njentione^'wh0 was'onç of his chosen retinue,
and are recordèd b y Mr . Dafrhûple/mhîsdne’ntàlKepertory/Vol.II. f). V45. But
as a curious and interesting performance, it is inserted in the. Appendix, No- IV ,
Thesei bt^nm vTOi'd; cnisrmsffii^tfd.thtthe Governor Genera^ by the
RegenrGhasijoo CocisliOQ^jbrother of the deceased Lama, and by Soo-
pootl Ghooffiibob^ hisjf^v®uritb iand cupbearers*; Faithfib; ti'anslatioas
of their'letters, aStcuy-Mtsispecimens ofdSibetian manners ,and habits
of lhinfeiffl;g,.are 'given .in. the, Appendix, NosT-I. and III.
I'iSqOn; after theTeseiipt '.©i&digsetl^ters,, intelligence arrived from Tibet,
of fihcofe-appearanee of the LarnaLmniigst; them, 1 The souk of the late
Laraa,< ade©feding to. the doctrines of theirfaith, having passed into,
and animatebthdbsdy an infent, Ite- diseov §ry . qf ,his
■ Mentity-jishy saeb«testimonies as their, treligipn prescribes, was acknowledged
and proclaimed by the same title p:dt;appeBat|ohra^-his-
predecessor:.':
Mr. Hastings^ upon the receipt i$fithesn accounts,,proposed; to the
Board,, to Send a second deputation fq. ^'jbht,. .He did me tbphsnhnr
to" recommend. Hie fop this- service, tq which T Was .accordingly no-mb
hated on 'the 9th of January, IS'83»
■ On iriy return,’! delivered to Mr. Ha'sting^y'wnim'I!met at Patna j
a -Rfcport on the result of my mdssiqn,' which was transmitted by him1
to the BoardJlpd aLa-’a,,hasty Narrative of,my interview with the
yottog Lamsl^which latter ^asy-by' their torder',' sent to the Asiatic
Society,:tO’b i inserted in there Researches*.
This, I,thif*%at time, considered as thebiiaf result of my mission,
and the only part of it which "appealed to' merit-'any publicy or official
notice. Nevertheless, as I had c archily' committed to writing, upon