How," inquired the baron, "was a lama'in a Jamasery punished for According to Mr. Tama's punishment was Solitary confinement either in a dark cell oF onthe roof of a flat ATI of the lamasery; a little food either case being passed 10 the "offending lama. Civil punishment, however, was quila a serious business, "The culprit in some cases was sewn up Inside a wet yak hide and put out into the sun to dry, and 23 the yak skin dried the victim was crushed to death, Another form of punishment common to civil law tunsisted of the prisoner being forced 10 put his hand or foot into Crime against the State was punished by dismemberment; the hose, hand, arm, foot or ley being cat off. The baron tried to ascertain the relation in the land of the lamas Lotween a certain crime and a given punishment, but the relationship apparently was quite arbitrary, Among other subjects, he made a study of chemistry, and is hoping during his visit 19 Jedo with Mr. Hanson-Lowe to examine some in-
Ain, the area way sparsely populated, largely owing {0 the Com= mumnist_ Invasion last year, so the travellers and the chair-bearers were sometimes at their wits end to know when to (urn right or left; con: sequently seven days had passed before they arrived in Tachientu. Messrs. Smith and Seymour who left Yachow the day before them, travel-Lung by the big road, arrived in hienlu on the some day. "The travel fers in their Journey sometimes had the Impression that they were not heading for 'Tachienlu ey certain points should have Ween passed certain times. Maps showing sign poste along the smal road were of very little use, a8 those who made The maps. apparently' had. forgotten where the places were, Changhoba, fon the east side of the Mongan pass, Ly some means or other had lost its precise Jocation, being placed quite Arbitrarily where it does not exist.
What Constitutes Worship teresting glacial formations. When the latter was here last summer he ald 8 short visit to the top of the Sedo (15,000 fect) and determined, if the opportunity occurred, to. revisit this Interesting glacial formation.
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