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i ACROSS THIBET. CHAPTER XIII. NATIVE CUSTOMS AXD CHARACTERS. PACK A Thibetan Vitellius — Chang — Commercial Chinamen — Native Women — Polyandry and Polygamy — Beggars — Contentment — ^The Chief of the District at Home — A Theo- logical Question — Departure from Scrcsumdo— Mendicant Lamas and their Music — News from Lhassa — The Hone>Tnoon in Thibet — Novel Method of Crossing a Stream — Tumblers — A Chief in his Cups — A Scene of Home Life— Fores Majeure — Fickle- ness of the Natives : the Probable Cause — At Karimeta — Primitive Husbandry — A lamaess— Praying Windmills— Tchoungo — The Dala and Djala Passes — A Splendid Prospect — A Pagoda — Houmda—Lagoun : a Manufacturing Town 120—151 CHAPTER XIV. FROM LAOOUN TO CUANGKA. Lam6 — Lamda — Bad Food— Religious Malthusianism — Crossing the Satchou— Capture of a New-bom Monkey — Koushoune — Ouoshishouno — A Fat Lama — Dz^rine— Hassar — Thibetans and Chinese : a Contrast— Indefinite Dates — Rough and Ready Justice — Dotou — A Dignified Chinese OflScial— A Series of Prayer Mills— Rachmed in Action — The Chinese Army — Parting with the Lama Guide — Tsonk6 — A Secret Christian — The Destruction of the Batang Mission — Burial-place of a French Mis- sionary — Reception by the Mandarin of Changka — Four Swords for 160 Men... 152 — 181 CHAPTER XV. BATAXO, TAT8IEN-LOU, AXD TOXQUIN. Religious Prophylactics — " Red " and " Yellow " Lamaism — The Lamas as Capitalists — From Changka to Koushou — The Tea Trade between China and Thibet— Leindiinne — Anarchy — Chinese Inns — The Blue River (Kin-sha-Kiang) — Frenchmen in Thibet — Chinese Justice — An Orgie — Chinese Soldiers : the Courage of Numbers — At Batang^-A Series of Questions— Tatsien-Lou — The French Missionaries There— A Difficulty with the Mandarin — Apology — Chinese Administration — Sending Home the Photographs— The Red River— On French Soil— Hanoi— The Future of Tonquin —Conclusion 182—221 Digitized by Google