Welcomes Visits of Europeans at Lanchow: Cossack Gen Annenkoff Freed Frost Oun Owx Connesroxoext, Lanchow, Kan, Juno 19, Among the little foreign community in this: city, "perhaps the three most interesting events during the past month have been the arrival of the great Living Buddha, the Panchan Lama, the visit of Gen. Annenkoff, the Cossack commander from Siberia, and an. exhibition held in the Mission Hospital, at which the Governor, the officials, and many gentry and mer~ chants were present.
The Panchan Lama, second in all Tibet, is still with us. He seems to welcome the visits of Europeans, and is a quiet man, keenly interested in modern things, with an engaging air and almost seraphic smile, To the many thousands of Tibet~ ans who have come down to see him he is a god. It is pathetic to see these poor travel-stained pllgrims, trailing over the mountains with their loads on their backs, often barefoot, and sometimes footsore. Some of the Tibetan women fare carrying their babies too, in this hot weather, from their homes 10 or 20 days' journey away, to Lanchow to see this man, and then back again.
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