But their main field of acquisition was playing with the Tibetan child ren and here they. mastered what very few missionaries are able do, namely, an. intimate knowles of the Tibetan idiom, The four young Bares are now able to converse in the language of Lamaland just Ike Tibetan children, One week ago Edgar Bare, only 15 years old, arrived all alone from Bulang. His parents lett him ther to help the Nichols and when elder Bares decided to go home they wired for Edgar (0 come out to Tachienlu, For a boy of Afteen this \was a most remarkable journey. "He Toft Batang with a Tibetan on March 19 and arrived April 6, Many nights his young tad had to sleep with the Tibetans out in the op he" seemed to greatly enjoy. The road covers high country and seldom does, it ce much below 12,000 fect, The frst pass out of Batang ts 18,000 feet high and the other passes are around 10,000 feet, This young Bare spent a hight or two a¢ Litang, a lama city 14,000 feet above sea level, naturally the lamas began to ask questions, 'The Bares could speak Tibetan, the eight new arrivals began their study of the language, so When the lamas saw this mass forma~ tion they fully expected a heavy attack on their' stronghold they were not mistaken, 'The Standifirds had possed this way' so the lamas and the lamaseries Know what they were in for, Nuss baum lived on the outskirts of the village and of him the Jamas had very' little fear. "Later the Ameri~ cans were joined by two hefty Norwogians of the Viking type and this was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The lamas took a serious view of the situation; it was capitulation or extermination as the new arrivals were musical, could sing, and carried numerous ' instruments, When they began singing assisted by an equal number of Tibetans the lamas had the impression that the missionaries were walking round Jericho. Tibetan psychology has not yet discovered how to. withstand a mass attack, so with this strong miss fon ary force in, their midst they determined to do something, An ultimatum was delivered to the American community which with the two Norwegians evacuated Tsakalo on July 4, 1939; ten of the party reliving on Batang, while the Bare family proceeded into the Land of the "Lamas, The journey from Tsakalo to Batang can be done in days but the parly met with very bad weather so was held up for more than one week on the right bank of the Yangtze just at the point where it leaves "Tibet and enters China, At this point the Americans had their boxes pillaged and lost some valuable things. They were living in tents under quite terrible conditions "with he rains, cold weath and a swollen river before them, Me, Nichols was taken quite sick so. Mr, Westborg returned from Batang'to look after him. Finally the party of eight Americans pulled into Batang and took up their residence in the mission buildings of the Foreign Christian Mission, In the meantime the Bares were travelling in a northwesterly direction towards Lhade and Gartok, They were now in Tibetan county and the people were more or less friendly towards them, specially the civil authorities, A' time was spent at Lhade and then the Bares went on fo the Lhasa. military outpost at Gartok, Here they lived and moved and had their being to the skirling of the bagpipes,
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