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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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about to be enforced, there came a letter from the
Teshoo lama, co-partner with the Dalai Lama in
saintliness, and, like him, an Incarnation. At that
time he seemed also to have had a certain jurisdic-
tion or suzerainty over the Bhutan country. The
letter is addressed to Hastings, grants that the mis-
chief was probably chargeable against the Bhutan-
ese, recites the punishment already inflicted, then,
setting forth his mission as one of intercession for
all mankind, and his special concern for the poor
mountain people, he, as an intermediary whose
office, religious and temporal, warrants interference,
presents his plea for mercy. The tone of the letter
and the representations made by the legate who de-
livered it were so marked by fairness and dignity
that a just cause was quickly won.
Mr. Bogle was first sent into Tibet representing
Hastings. He became very fond of the Teshoo
lama and has left a pleasing report of his relations
with the people, who had not then learned to fear
his kind. The presents sent to Hastings, following
universal custom in the East, made as much impres-
sion on the Englishman as did the pleadings for the
weak. "Perhaps there are trade opportunities in a
country whose chief is so enlightened and so (appar-
ently) rich,'' thought he who ruled for a trading
company.
Other correspondence followed, and finally a
second mission to Tibet, consisting of Captain Tur-
ner and a medical officer with a small escort, bearing
gifts and assurances of friendship. Turner has left
one of the most interesting records that have come
down to us from the early travellers, who were so
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