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0324 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 324 (Color Image)

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[Photo] To face page 265 THE POTALA, LHASA

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ing with monks who ha
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really negotiating, but I
their best to stave us o
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matter-of-fact, common-s
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without any necessity.
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the Tibetans being so stu
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him, to break through their
exclusiveness, and to let
the inhabitants of the rest of
I meant to make a begin
now, on the very fir
right through the heart

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spears, and native lantern
I took two compa
the Mounted Infantry.
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at a moment's notice. T
had used to look on
this sacred city, it was
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had more clean than
of solid masonry, bo
and the temples w
Only the Potala
town at its base
and, without th
symmetry, was imp
and dominating s