The burly, woolly nomad, the unwashed, red robed lama, the ignorant, superstitious draba, the fat, sleek, courteous, suave, merchant, the young, care-free acolyte, the old grey headed farmer, and the dirty, smelly, blushing maiden all have this grace ious word on their lips. Frequently both palms are stretched out, follo ed by a vigorous protrusion of a long and well developed tongue, and then follows: "Deli-mo" the word in Tibetan for "Peace." I believe the lama. the nomad, and the draba, have have discovered the meaning behind Shakespeare's words.
"To thine own self be true and it follows as the night the day Thou const not then be false to any man." I believe the Tibetans are as sincere in their salvation as the heavenly host when it sang—to God in the highest, and on peace, good will toward men."
The nomad may be dirty, and the aroma surrounding his person may not be all that one would desire, and he may never change his woolly garment for months at a stretch, but nature, and this includes a perennial view of the great, high, eternal, snow mountains have somehow taught him the idea of "good will toward men" and he expresses this in the single word eace." No one can forget Kinglake's delightful description of the two Englishmen politely passing each other in the desert, "The masters, therefore, had no sooner passed each other, than their respective servants quietly stopped and entered into conversation, As soon as my camel found that het companions were not following her, she caught the social feeling and refused to go on." Exactly! The two Englishmen passed on; the servants entered into conversation; the camels stopped! It may be that past history has recorded that many years before, two English officers Stopped each other in exactly this same spot; one asked the other for a drink, dratik all he had, leaving a very bad but distinct impression in the mind of one officer, who determined, if ever he crossed that dry desert again he would carefully refrain from salute ing his thirsty brother officer. Or it may be otherwise!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.