Surrounding the blazing lamasery fon all. sides were enormous crowds Who" watched" in open-eyed wonder this agile young fellow spring from point to another, and they did everything but cheer. General, colonel. motor, captains, soldiers, hundreds of Tamas ahd thousands of people saw what -one young foreigner could do to save Tachienlu from disaster.
Occasionally the young American volunteer fireman had his whiskers singed the ig only twenty-three, but hard travelling has forced him to Sometimes his clothes Would catch fire, and then a friendly water-carrier would make It his busi-chess to see that Mandeville himself id not go up in smoke, The building saved by Mr. Mandeville was erected last year by Dorje Geshe who has just arrived in Lhasa, Done Is a native of Tachienlu and he built this temple as a memorial to himself and his future greatness. He passed through Shanghai a few weeks ago on his way to Caleuttr fand the sacred capital, Lhasa is more conveniently reached from Tachtenli through Shanghai, Singapore, Calciutta, and Darjeeling, than directly from' this city. The stages from Tachtenlu to Lhasa are over seventy. and the rond is lon and dangerous We have many residents here on the frontier who have coma by sea rather than face the arduous overland Journey.
Done Geshe has _lways been strongly and bitterly opposed to foreigners and always boasts that, they have nothing to offer him in enlightenment or salvation. Sometimes he is very rude to the simple European who tresses his path. It will, therefore, come asa shock to him when he hears that a young American, only few days in Tachienlu, risked his life to save his temple and the city from Alsaster.
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