candied sugar, and whilst our inter-prefer was carrying on polite con versation—he was much awed, the good fellow—one had @ chance to fake stock of one's surroundings.
Six Electric Torches, In the centre of the room was a supporting wooden pillar with riding Whips banging Srom ty and. also. Tibetan knife and belt." On the wall Behind" us were numerous. photo-raphe of officials and lama digaitar-{ex besides we. large posters, one ct'Dr. Sun Yat-sen and' one of the Generalissimo. 'The oppose wall contained a second small window, In Front of which were mare low seals fud tables, and about them ung the shadows om Hnaultve crowd of tion was a, species' of sideboard ug forme. Opposite the Ti-
Svith a central laughing Buddha sur-Founded' by smaller ogles, whilst on the leit of our august host were yet more small ligures, apparently of Zorcelain, together with no less than She electric torches' and two. old {ahioned clocks with lass' sides triabling ove to see. the. wheels £0 mind. "On the table in front of the Thearnation the pale smoke of Juniper Incense rose ffem g small. censer amid a clutter of welling. materials Sha. books.
We then exchanged cards with our host who apologized for not inviting ts to dine with him, saying that. {ood would probably not prove pal Sble to. foreign visitor But even he made vue a gilt of sugar and Stied Jajubes, promising, to send S'gitt'of milk inthe morning (he Sid' a0, but It fad curdied). ite In fils, (at was hen presented with 2 cloth-bound Tibetan book, with many pictures, and' delightedly showed. the fatter to his attendants, Finally asked permission to photograph him, ud, 10 our surprise, permission was fiven us to do so the following morn figs "Upon which our visit closed.
Early the next day. we were received in the same toom and offered refreshment. Servants were sent 10 clear" the courtyard of the curious trid down the rickely stairs we went, feverishly clutching "the" ysichale, Gna ting Tibetan carpet a seat_was placed, covered with a leopard. skin, End on this our Incarnation sat sith due solemnity. And so for the rst time "our camerse clicked. before a Voice made. visible—strange: trans mutation of the vocal into the visual. But this was not all. After" two Dorey on the chait he descended and tre Took a third of him beside his tame. deer When lunching with the hslenchang 1 noted that the local eneral beside me. partook solely of vegetable food "drank no. wine, Such piety Sirueke me 8 de." Further. on foIng into one of the chapels atthe lamasery.
discovered a formidable array of hundreds of tiny lamps, simple wicks floating in melted bulter, "together with as many litle symbolic mounds fof butlered tsamba. Here was a further expression "of the general's piety, for it was he who had pald the '¢xpenses for this array. And Lastly, in the general's own room was.
whole buddhahood.
An explanation had perforce to be Sought. In reality it was " simple tone: the general was empking his position more safe with the Fututu, and was showing him the religious excellencies of which he was capable. He probably had not forgotten that a large number of military was on its even then to Litang. Later, arrived back in Tachienlu, we heard that a Colonel Tang had been murdered by Tibetans in Litang, and that there had been fighting between the Chinese military and the Tibetans. We never knew if our fellow guest was really a general; it is so convenient to label them all as such, But he was such a nice little man that we both hope he was a general and not a colonel, And that his name was not Tang.
(To be Continued)
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