augmented from a few cëmpntóes to two battalions,, was sent todispossess'the
in v ad e r s> n d .d B iv e ? t hern-back h r their own f r o n t i e r s
| 'j'be military vyeapons of the Booteeas are the bow and arrow, a,shart
straifsword, aricTaTaulchion,-reflected:TMke'a-’prumngrknife...-These,
though wiêldéd’.by strong teaMsf%id'-directed-b^rnwhilindividual
cobrage, wéreïbT
quet’ry of their antagonists; who experienced a rnüdbmm’e destructive
foe, intMvpéstiferous Tegiomthrough.whieh-they continued >lshej?tpuft-
stót^afterhaving'driven the Bo@teeas^rom>thms^e Contention: ifetP
their own confines. There the Raja, weary, of'the! Goftflfeand^armed
forth® safety bf hisown dominions; applied to Tes-hoo Lampr and-obtained
liiSjmeffiati&n for a>peade: ■
Teshoo'Lama was at that tim'e>thè’ Regen-t'of Tibtett»niSfehetguardian
bf Dalai Lama, his superior iw religions;-r-ank^^wbo was?yfetLÏn his
minority. He was about for%-yearS>- ©g^tge^greatly -venerated on
a'ccóürit of his' hatred office, and not less'bêloved forithebeneVofonce
of his character; and the caUrte-sy-et'Ms manners. g All who apprbaebed
him were-his worshippers f s0 that hb United, in-bis own .person,bbA
thé political authority, and ihè* spiritual’ hierarchy-öf-the country:-! Id
his political bharacterV-indeed, he aéknóvrledgedthe sovereignty «ff the
Emperor ofGhffia5 whb had a delegate, with a small military force; I
think about one thousand mèb, resident- at LaSsa^ ’the'capital of Dalai
* In”die^pronuiteiation of this ‘word, both in Tibet and Bengal,' k sborig'aspiiation
h placed'uporf >tbe-beginning, Lahassa*. but for thë same reason that I have' t e s te d ’ a
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Lama, buUwho had{ hot< yet: muchi interposed in the interior government
of either division.of the.province:
n*.Therkamat,a$[5ped'.ibsy theiprayers o£ the Raja, and interested for the
■ Safety of Bootappwhkjh wastavdeponpenGy o£ Tibet, sent a deputation
to Calcutta, with a-letter addressed to the Governor, which l am glad to
afei&fipas am<tf®thfenti&apdycUfious-speGimen-of Mstgoodf sense,: humir
1-ity, simplicity of heart, and,, above all,, of that delicacy of sentiment
-abed 'e-xpfd^ibrfj^MSh ffould.&onyey a-threat in .the t@rmsfp£meekness
'4nd -si^p'M'ch'tioni*u- -
ITraiisl'atimïïïf a"Letler front^TesUodLama to fflafmn, Hastings, Esq.
I President and Gof ^rkar'‘of^For4 fPilliam iw Bengal. - Received the
The afRtiFS'oh^thi^ijdUrtfePJ^^feVer-^ rnspect flburish: Lam night
and day ^employed in prayers ;for the increase’ of your happiness add
prosperity. Having- feeeirinformed, by travellers frorrf your-country,
of your- exalted- fame - and reputation, my heart-, like the blossoms of
double b in Tibet, I retain the established mode of'spelling Lassa. II is rare, indeed, that
our own mode of' spelling the’ names o f persons, or places, corresponds with their local
prdnuhciation.. ■ I have-'endfeatoiiied to.expres'sfthe sound-ofsuch names as WiM be found
in the following, Pfges, just as they caught my. ear, in all cases where custom has not
already appealed" fd|%nction som^’ particular mode of spelling. We need not travel
beyond our tiWn natiofi to discover how 'often-} iff this respect,'custom and. propriety are
at variance.