Writers writing about the Root of the World have frequently referred to the ratified air and its relation to saintliness and Nirvana, and the theory has been advance that religion and high altitudes" are synonymous. There may be something In this, but H. G. Wells in his Autobiography has failed to mention it, and Winston Churchill in his makes no reference whatever. However in the Land of the Lamas there is some slight relation between air and rare, rim-bdo-che being the rare man on the Roof of the World. That the ranted atmosphere in Tibet in con. auction with whisky has some effect upon the inhabitants there is no doubt, When a Tibetan drinks a small glass of Chinese whisky he becomes a different man, prepers to When Bang.da-tsong, a friend of the late Dalai Lama's, was murdered in Tibet some years ago he left four sons to carry on what is recognized to be the largest commercial house] in the Land of the Lamas, being responsible for government transport andthe food supplies in the Dalal's household. Enormous sums of money were Invested in the hands of these four young men who carried on business in Calcutta, Kalimpongs Tachlenti, Shanghai, Peking, Hong-ong, and Tokio, Apparently the frm carte blanche in buying and felling and again the lama powder dry and sold leopard skins! Why not? Tibet is very high and produces very little apart from and the lama, if he is to pra save the world from democracy and other Idjosyneracies, must live, and to do so he must either beg or steal or do business, So Bang-da-tsong quite prepared to do the business if the lama' will maintain an attitude of prayer. However there is a time to die and so it came to pass that the Dalai Lama died snd left fabulous sums of rupees in the hands of a firm. which later became related to His Highness. When the Dala ed away there arose a bond of men who knew not Joseph and who had old" scores. against the house Bang-da-tsong- Nema, and Yangpel, it Is reported, fled easy into India, Raga and Dojaa fled west into Chi The Bang-da-tsong residence and estate is near Draya and a few days west of Batang, Last year, courag~ ously but very foolishly, the Bang-da household, numbering some hundreds of retainers, rose in revolt against the present Lhasa regime, disarming sore hundreds of Lhasa troops, captured three British cannon, and retired on Batang. These guns were fused in the attack on Batang some years ago, doing deadly damage to the American Mission there; however they are now quite converted and prepared to defend Batang against all comers the absence of shot and shell. being a minor detail—British prestige being the thing that counts.
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