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0309 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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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 unwar-
like 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.