The ceremony took place in what is known as the Chuja caravansary, where Mandeville and Roubin built their skin boat, Nightmare, in which they hoped to sail from Tachienlu to Shanghai. These caravansaries, of which there are 48 in the city, are used by the Tibetans when they come from Lhasa, Chamdo, Derge, Litang and Kanze, Usually the rooms, upstairs and down, are arranged round the four sides of the courtyard, and in the old days the yak and horses occupied the downstairs and
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