was put to them they answered as tone man, so that no member of their company could be spotted and arrested. The Tibetan merchants exe still threatening to leave Tachienla en asse on the third of the Chinese moon, if the proposed new tax is not rescinded: they also threaten to make Chinese enter prise impossible in the interior the local authorities continue their present foolish method:
'The lamias have had a very, very long and patient training in the art of showing how very, very poor they are: in fact every lama throughout Tibet has more or less specialized in the art, not of giving, but of receiving.' However, in present case, they are being inly told, "it is more blessed to to receive and a definite ud a drastic threat are given to produce the silver rupees. 20, th heads of the seven lamaseries in Tachienla will be seized and put in prison.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.