The Archive · 1893

The Tibetan Tribute

K'uei Huan, Resident in Tibet, reports the departure' of the usual mission from the Panshen Erdeni Lama of Teshilumbo for Peking with the proper tribute articles, Request had been made by the Tibetan authorities to change the route of the road to that by Sining and Kansu.

This application was set aside on a memorial to the Throne from the Governor-General of Kansu, and the mission takes its usual route. It left Teshilumbo on the 24th August 1892, and memorialist reports the escort arrangements. The members of the mission are an abbot and thirty priests and followers, Ist January.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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