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0309 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / Page 309 (Color Image)

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Sketch of Tibetan History   199

what with the rigours with which Nature makes a bulwark for these, her little-favoured children, the Goorkhas were not able to widely conquer an unwarlike land ere an army and its leaders came from the east. Then the doughty invaders met their match ; they were forced to an inglorious peace; and until a very late date, perhaps even now, the Raja sends an embassy with tribute to far Pekin, remembering 1792.