Tachienlu, May 28.
Round the world in eighty days is mere child's play to getting out of Bardo in 49 days. The Tibetan Indy who owns and occupies the large caravansary next door to us in Tachienlu died over one month ago and about fitly strong, hefty lamas and drabas are having a some whi strenuous time getting her soul out of Bardo into a place of peace and rest, The alloted time apparently Is 49 days and unless they work very hard the lamas may fail in their effort to get this poor soul to a place of safety on the other side of the creek.
They are, however, not to blame for the heavy task before them, It appears that the Aja, our next door neighbour, was not 'a very kindly Lady and frequently was very hard fon her servants, men and women, and made demands on her guests, Tamas and drabas, that put her in a very bad light, 'A poor person, a for-carrier, rented a room in this large caravansary and the Aja de-anded, apart from the rent, so many days labour each month. A Graba rented a room and the Aja demanded from the poor fellow so many days praying. A poor lama rented a room and the Aja demanded so many days reading a some well known Sutra, Poot soul, had she only realized that, whats sows. that shall he also this. present life. Instead of being she might have been kind, and instead of being hard she might have been sympathetic, If she had only Known, after her decease, the terrible task the lamas would have in getting her out of Bardo, she might have followed the principle That, it is more blessed to give than to receive, However, like many another, she thought the time to die lad not yet come. When she passed away she was still on the sunny side of forty, though she had been ailing for some considerable time.
The lamas prayed long, hard and loud for her recovery, and while doing $0 consumed enormous quan-titles of rancid yak-butter tea, without accomplishing very much. She alea and apparently is now in Bardo,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.