In the Potala the visitor is shown the identical sword with which Ch'ien Lung fought, his saddle, and his bow and arrows, wi his favourite mule still roams in the powder, six feet across. The design is extremely intricate, and the lamas have no pattern to guide them, yet the finished charm is of identical design in quadrature, but the colours are different in each section. grounds of the Palace. This extraordinary longevity is, perhaps, partially explained by the fact that an official draws a large allowance Seven days are spent in making one of these; evfras are then recited over it for another seven days; and on the fifteenth day it is taken
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