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India and Tibet : vol.1 |
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wise, approved of his "countenance and manner." He
pretended to skill in physiognomy and fortune-telling,
and foretold very great things of Manning.
Manning also visited the Tibet Mandarin, who lived
"in a sort of castle on the top of a hill," the Jong, which
General Macdonald attacked and captured in 1904, and
they discussed Calcutta and Tibet together for half an
hour, but what they said Manning does not record. The
Tibetan intimated that he would return the visit the
next day, and he sent "some rice and a useful piece of
cloth, but did not come himself."
With his medical practice Manning had a greater
success. To one Chinaman and his wife, who were
suffering from "an intermittent fever," he gave "opium,
Fowler's solution of arsenic, and afterwards left them a
few pages of bark. The mother-in-law, also, who had the
complaint of old age, he cheered up with a little comfort-
ing physic."
The General often came to see him, "for, like many
other Generals, he had nothing to do, and was glad of a
morning lounge." He managed, however, to foist a
Chinese servant on to Manning as cook. This man's
cooking was bad, but "in drying and folding up linen he
saved him infinite trouble," for, says Manning, "I never
could to this day fold up a shirt or other vestment. A
handkerchief or a sheet I can manage, but nothing
further."
Manning, hearing that the General was fond of music,
and "no bad performer," took the opportunity "one day,
while he was smoking his pipe in my courtyard, of intro-
ducing the subject, and paying my court to him by
requesting the favour of hearing music. This brought me
an invitation to take an evening repast and wine with him,
which was just what I liked. He gave us a very pretty
concert. . . . The Chinese music, though rather meagre
to a European, has its beauties. . . . The General
insisted upon my giving him a specimen of European
(Calcutta) music on the Chinese flute. I was not ac-
quainted with the fingering of that instrument, but I
managed to produce something, which he politely praised."
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