Then she decided to try to get in from China, and after spending about " year on the frontier living very quietly, not going out, but constantly receiving Tibetans in her house, she received various offers of convoys to Lhasa, Before crossing the frontier, about which she had no trouble, she unhappily engaged a Chivaman, whose Tibetan name was Naga, She had two tents, four servants, and tried to get ten really good horses by promising to give them at the journey's end to Naga," But all through, her difficulties about horses seem to have been endless. One of her first serinus adventures was being attacked by x band of brigands with white fur coats, leading exch a spare horse, Two were killed, eight wounded, and five out of hee horses killed, besides much property lost, But " Lama called out to the robbers, hey are women! All women!" s0 shy was not pursued, Amongst Mongols ang Tibetans it is esteemed n dreadful thing ty, strike a woman, so that all women go abou, unarmed, although every man carries wen. pons, As Miss Taylor says, by the Tibetan religion it is forbidden to tuke life whether a flew's, a sheep's, or a man's, The conseguence of which seems to be that all are alike lightly esteemed.
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