March 8.
Ta irony of fate that makes the Dalai Lama a refugee on British soil within a few months after his return to his own capital, from which he fled five years previously at the approach of a British expedition, can hardly be lost upon the pontiff himself. He will have needed, therefore, all the glamour of the triumphal progress that marked the latter stage of his three hundred mile journey from Lhasa to Darjeeling to compensate for the bitterness of his thoughts, as he fled to Indian territory before his Chinese pursuers. By now he will have had time to take stock of his position, and he must be possessed nal fro
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