Chapter XXXIX: Appendix: IV
EXPLANATION OF SOME UNFAMILIAR WORDS.
Auberge A medicine for colds.
Bhoussa Chopped straw.
Boortsa A kind of heather.
Bully beef Tinned beef.
Choudrie Official in a bazaar.
Chuppaties Unleavened bread.
Degchies Cooking-pots.
Ecka A two-wheeled native cart.
Ghi Clarified butter.
Hallal To kill according to Mohammedan form.
Hann A variety of Tibetan vegetable.
K'ang A raised platform used as a bed. There is
a fire underneath it.
Kumbuk A variety of Tibetan vegetable.
Numnah Felt saddle-cloth.
Palan A kind of saddle.
Poshteen A fur coat.
Suleetah Saddlebag.
Yakdan Mule trunk.
INDEX
A.
A-chia Fu-yeh, 285–6.
Ali, Shukr. _See_ Shukr Ali.
Allen, 398.
Ann Pass, 56.
Antelope considered as food, 180.
Argoons, origin of, 32, 247.
B.
Baga Nor, 257.
Baltal, 23.
Bana tribes, 238–9, 247; sham fight, 251; 252, 255; entering a
camp of, 256, 257.
Baramula, 4, 7, 10.
Barkhalu, 104–5, 112, 114.
Barong, 194, 215, 216, 219, 227, 234, 240, 246.
Batoum, 388.
Bayan Gol, 228, 240, 241, 247.
Blue Lake. _See_ Koko Nor.
Bota Pass, 223.
Botham, Mr. and Mrs., 329.
Botham, Mr., 329, 330–1.
Bower, Major, 3, 78, 81.
Bread in China, 324.
Brown, Colonel, 411.
Buddha, religion of: reincarnation test, 279; 282; etiquette,
288; K'ombo, 291; praying-wheels, 225, 291–2; 295.
Burhan Bota, 220, 233.
Burhan Bota Pass, 223.
Butterfield and Swire, 415, 416.
C.
Calcutta, 209, 421–2.
Canton, 415, 421.
Carville, Mr., 419.
Cash, Chinese, 361, 363–4.
Chagoti, 7.
Cha-Ha-La-Po, 381, 385.
Cha-Ha-Pa-La, 379, 384.
Cha-ka-ri, 385.
Chang, the, 188, 376.
Chang Chenmo, 47.
Chang Kia Tsai, 324, 331.
Cha-tao, 385, 394.
Chemre, 41, 47.
Ch'enkook, 261.
Chen-Lao-Pan, 263, 265, 267–8, 345, 363, 368, 371.
China: Tibetan tribute, 208; Tibetan trade with, 209–10.
China Inland Mission, 330.
Chinese peculiarities; etiquette, 265–6, 327–8; official
exemptions, 325; money, 363–4; school-teaching, 368; inns,
372–3; burial, 374, 402; measurements, 386; local terms, 388
(note); superstition (spirit's paper), 391–2; method of
rewarding by fame or infamy, 392; contorted feet, 405.
Chong-Chang-Tsi, 331.
Chong Wei, 330–2, 335–6, 341 _et seq._, 372, 383.
Chotenchenbo, 74.
Chu, 301.
Chulas. _See_ Fireplaces.
Chu Ma River, 1, 165, 202, 234.
Chumatang, 44, 47.
_Crocus sativus_, 14.
Cunjian, 43, 47.
Curzon, Right Hon. George, 7.
D.
Dapsoga, 223.
Darjeeling, 292.
Dass, Lala Bishan, 32.
Deasy, Captain, 65.
Denbigh, Mr. 415.
De Trouille de Rhins, 248, 296–7.
Domel, 7.
Donlung, 47.
Dragon Colt's Island, 278.
Dras, 24.
E.
Eggs in China, 372.
Egu, 41, 47.
Esau (Esa Tsareng), 32, 48, 54, 70, 101; bears ill news, 106;
112, 115–16, 121, 147, 149–50; goes off with Malcolm in search
of people, 173; returns, 174; 177, 184; sent to reconnoitre a
camp, 191, 192; his report, 193–4; 195–8, 201, 210, 224;
reconnoitring with Wellby, 228 _et seq._; 255 _et seq._;
offers a contemptibly small tip, 261; 316, 326, 338, 356, 379,
396, 417, 418, 422.
F.
Fireplaces (chulas), 92–3, 139, 185, 188, 221, 224.
Flora collected in Tibet, 423.
Flower temple, 294.
Forbes, Mr. W. H., 415.
Forbes & Co., 263, 342, 345, 346, 353, 367.
Fu, defined, 388 (note).
Fu T'ai, the, 284.
Fu-yeh. _See_ Mina Fu-yeh, Shertoch Fu-yeh, A-chia Fu-yeh, and
Mété Fu-yeh.
G.
Gabet, 376, 392 (note).
Gagangir, 23.
Galsworthy, Captain, 421.
Goa considered as food, 180.
Gold-tiled temple, 283, 287 _et seq._
Golok, the, 215, 218–9.
Gompa Soba, 258–9.
Goond, 20.
Great Wall of China, 383–4, 394, 396–7, 398.
Green glazed-tiled temple, 293.
Grey, 398.
Grosvenor, Hugh, 412.
Gulf of Pe Chili, 329, 330, 393.
Gunderbul, 19.
Gya, 43, 47.
Gya nullah, 42.
H.
Hadji, Bakr, 54, 65–6.
Hall, Mr., 262, 297, 319–20.
Hallaling, the bigotry of the men illustrated by, 57, 75, 128;
conquering prejudice, 139.
Hankow, 412.
Han-Shih-Pu, 331.
Han-Uen-Sheo, 303.
Hart, Sir Robert, 411.
Hatuturgy, 255.
Helmet Hill, 118.
Hemis nullah, 41.
Henston, Surgeon-Major, 416.
Herma, 43, 47.
Herring, Sergeant, 406 (text and note).
Himalayas, Western, 273.
Ho, General, 307, 309.
Ho Cheo, 300, 314.
Ho K'eo Tsi, 326.
Ho La, 263.
Ho-Lo-Si T'ai, 380, 384.
Hong Kong, 416, 420.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Co., 416.
Hoogly, the, 421.
Ho Tsui Tsi, 325.
Hsang Ho Ri, 270, 273.
Hsian Fu, 330.
Hsiao Hsia, 324.
Hsieht'ai, the (of Tankar), 265, 267–8.
Hsien, defined, 388 (note).
Hsi Ho, 270.
Hsing-Ping-Ho, 383, 385.
Hsiun-Hua-Ting, 298, 300, 310.
Huai-lai-hsien, 385.
Hua Miao, 294.
Huang Ho, 326, 337, 355.
Huc, 376, 392 (note).
Hunan, 274.
Hunan soldiers, 309–10.
Hunter, Mr., 329, 330.
I.
Ih-Tiao-Shan, 331.
Ih-Uan-Chuen, 331.
Iman Mula, 110.
Indus, 28, 40 _et seq._
Io-kia-t'ong, 385.
Irwin, Dr., 416.
J.
Jesus Christ, the point of reconciliation with Tsong K'aba, 292.
Jhelum, 7.
Juma, 113.
K.
Kaba, 51.
Kangan, 20.
Kanjur Rungyum, 252.
Kanoo, 246.
Kansu, 273–4, 375. _See also_ Mohammedan Rebellion.
K'an-T'ang-Tsi, 331.
Kargil, 27.
Keisir, 44, 47.
Kera, 43, 47.
Kerambutabuk, 72.
Kerinagar, 74.
Khalsi, 28.
Kharbu, 27.
Khe, an innkeeper, 401.
Khotan, 79.
Ki-mio-si, 385.
Knight, E. F., 23.
Koko Nor, 280, 311.
Koko Nor Lake, 238, 252, 255, 257, 278.
Koko Nor, Prince of, his daughter, 269; 283.
Kuei Hua Cheng, 374, 376, 384.
Kuei-Tê, 280.
Kuen Lun, 109, 110.
Kumbum, a visit to the monastery of, 269 _et seq._
Kushok, the, 204 _et seq._
Kyang (wild ass): described, 61; considered as food, 179–80.
Kyrma, 243.
L.
Labrang, 208 (note).
Ladakh, 18, 19, 56, 62, 63, 78, 79, 80, 89, 193, 222, 285, 335.
Lakes unnamed, 84 (fresh); 85 (salt); 92 (salt); 93 (fresh);
98 _et seq._ (fresh); 123 (two fresh); 125 (fresh); 129 (nearly
fresh); 131–2 (dried-up salt bed); 133 (big salt); 138 (fresh);
146 (larger shallow salt); 156 (brackish); 158 (fresh); 174
and 176–7 (fresh).
Lala Bishan Dass, _See_ Dass.
Lama of Chumatang, 44.
Lamayuru, 28.
Lanak La, 73, 75, 78 _et seq._, 93, 95, 141.
Lancheo, 114, 265, 297, 299, 305, 314, 315–6, 320, 324, 327–9,
331, 348, 372.
Lassoo, 32, 62, 106, 113, 147, 149–50, 182–3, 185, 191, 221,
224, 228–9, 324, 338, 379, 417, 419, 421–2.
Leh, 12, 13, 19 _et seq._, 28 _et seq._, 48, 51, 54, 55, 75,
107, 144, 189, 264, 422.
Leh, Wazir of, 112.
Lhassa, 31, 47, 69, 78, 130, 148–9, 153, 156, 193, 204, 208
(note), 209, 210, 233, 262–3, 267, 290, 292–3.
Li, General, 306 _et seq._
Li, nature of distance in, 386.
Liang-Cheo, 299.
Lickse, 42, 43, 47.
Lighten, Lake, 91.
Lin-Hsien-Sheng. _See_ Rijnhart, Peter.
Littledale, St. George, 7, 48, 112, 148, 323, 328, 348, 351.
Lobsan (Dsun Choni Lama), 233 _et seq._, parting from, 316.
Lou Ya, 324.
Ludhkong, 49, 52 _et seq._
Lumberg, Mr., 348, 351, 354; his servant, 354.
Lusam Kindum, 263, 267.
Lusar, 291.
Lu-Tong-Tsi, 331.
M.
Macartney, Captain, 335.
Macdonald, Sir Claude and Lady, 406, 411.
Macdonald, Lady, 412.
Machahoi, 24.
Ma Chu. _See_ Chu Ma.
Ma Huei Tsi, 325–6, 331.
Maie, 45, 47.
Malcolm, Lieutenant, 1; joins Wellby, 14; leaves him at
Srinagar, 19; swims across the Indus, 44, 45; pigeon-missing,
46; kills an antelope, 75, 99; shoots a yak 79, 182; 89;
doctoring Sulloo, 106; well-digging, 107; 113, 121, 123,
128, 134, 147, 149; discovers poisoned mules, 160; 167,
168–9; shoots a kyang, 170, 173, 189, 224; goes off in
search of people, 173; returns, 174; 177, 181, 192, 201,
210; sells a spoonful of brandy, 211; shoots a bear, 225;
sets off reconnoitring with Lassoo, 228 _et seq._; rejoins
Wellby with the Mongols, 232; 241, 255–6, 263; arrives at
Tankar, 264; receives a present from Lusam Kindum, 267; 320,
327, 341; at Pao T'eo, 368; 379–80, 398, 421.
Malik, Mahomed, 7, 11, 20.
Manasbal, 20.
Māné, 181.
Mangtza-Tso, 66, 69.
Marmots, 169, 186–7.
Marsemik La, 47.
Mason, Mr., 329.
Metaiun, 24.
Mété Fu-yeh, 290.
Mina Fu-yeh, 270 _et seq._
Mir, Duffadar Shahzad, 17, 19, 32, 46, 54, 78, 95, 113, 119;
strange cure for a stomach-ache, 144; 147, 148, 150, 155, 184,
191; the Kushok inquires why he carries the square table,
216; 226, 228, 326, 338, 346; mistaken for a Salar at Chong
Wei, 351; 379–80; missing, 390 _et seq._; reappearance, 394;
his opinion of the Chinese, 405; 419, 422.
Mitpah Conmah, 60.
Mitpah Yungmah, 60.
Mi-tour-chon, 384.
Mohammedan Rebellion, 274, 286, 289, 294, 296–7; the history
of the, 298 _et seq._
Monasteries, 27, 28, 269 _et seq._
Mongol Camp (long), 384.
Mongol Camp (short), 385.
Mongols, the, their marriage and death ceremonies, 245.
Mulbeck, 27.
Mules, varieties at Leh, 31; affection between mule and pony,
55–6; pathetic death of a mule, 83; more deaths, 85, 88–9;
a mutinous mule, 102; more deaths, 117, 119; reduced to twelve
animals, 125; mules reduced to three by poison, 160–1; a
troublesome survivor, 177–8; weights borne by Chinese mules,
315–16.
Mun, 51.
Murree, 7.
N.
Namoran Dawan (Pass), 223.
Namoran Gol, 227, 233.
_Nanchang_, the, 416 _et seq._
Nan-Kou, 385, 398, 402.
Nan-Kou Pass, 397.
Nant-sing-ho, 385.
Napu La, 60, 64, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77.
Ni, 44, 47.
Niagzu, 49, 52, 53, 56 _et seq._, 141, 212.
Nicotine Kontal, 252.
Niempe, 305, 331.
Nimbri (the Kushok's servant), 200–2, 207, 210, 212, 215, 218.
Ning-Shia district, 359.
Ning-Shia-Fu, 335, 342, 345, 354.
Noring Hol, 248.
Nowshera, 1, 422.
Numa, 45, 47.
Nurla, 28.
Nurtse, 61.
O.
Ootoo, 241.
Ordos country, 342.
P.
Pal, 48.
Palans, effect of friction on animals and suggested improvement,
76.
Palgez, Munshi, 35.
Pamir Commission, 17.
Pangong Lake, 34, 47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 148.
P'an Ku, 296.
Pao T'eo, 114, 342, 345, 354, 360, 365–6; in the city, 367 _et
seq._; 379, 384.
Peh Ma Ssï, 323.
Peh-sie-ki, 384.
Pekin, 280, 323, 364, 371–2, 376, 380, 384–5, 391, 394–5, 398;
in the city, 406; 411, 412, 415.
Penang, 421.
Peshawar, 13.
Ping-Chong-i, 304–6.
Ping-Fang, 305.
Polu road, 79.
Ponies, death of two, 80; death of the black mule's friend, 85;
more deaths, 89; death of last pony, 161.
Porandu Pass, 54.
Port Said, 365.
Precious Hill, the, 283.
Prjevalsky, Colonel, 183.
Pu, defined, 388.
Q.
Quarry Bay, 420.
R.
Rahim, Mahomed, threatens to turn back, 96; terrible result of
wrangling, 106; 112, 115, 117; despatched to scout, 131;
return, 132–3; 154.
Ralma, 47.
Ramzana, 10.
Rawal Pindi, 1, 4.
Renki Yang Hong, 367.
Ridley, Mr., 297, 316 _et seq._
Ridley, Mrs., 297, 304–5; farewell to, 320; 324.
Rijnhart, Dr., 269.
Rijnhart, Peter, 261 _et seq._; 320 _et seq._; services as
interpreter at Chong Wei, 345–7, 351; anecdote of a _lapsus
linguæ_, 352–3; 359, 364, 368, 376, 379–80, 382, 386–7, 396,
398, 402; his departure, 411–12.
Rockhill, W. W., 227, 260, 287 (note), 294 (note), 323 (text
and note).
Roorkee, 114.
Ruby (fox terrier bitch), 3, 23, 75; has pups, 78; 99, 117,
166, 168, 224, 241, 246; lost, 337, 341.
Rudok, 47, 48, 60; officials from, 69 _et seq._
Rundore, 66, 70, 74.
Rupees, curious predilection for crownless, 242, 260.
Russul, Ghulam, 112, 115, 127, 132; treachery of, 148.
S.
Sa-cheng, 385.
Sacred tree, 287.
Sakya Muni, 279 (note), 287–8, 398.
Salaki, 372, 384.
Salars, insurrection of, 299; loyalists, 304, 314.
Saspul, 28.
Seling Amban. _See_ Koko Nor (Prince of).
Selling Gompa, 248.
Ser, 223.
Sha-ho, 385.
Shanghai, 330–1.
Shang Tan, 323, 325, 331.
Shan-Kia-Tong, 331.
Shantong, 311.
Sheep, the last, 98–9; sacrificed, 108.
Shen-Chong, 308.
Sherchichaba, 263.
Shertoch Fu-yeh, 281.
Sherwos, 42, 47.
Shey, 40.
Shih-Tsui-Tsi, 342, 363, 365, 372, 381.
Shih-Rong-Wa, 379, 384.
Shishi, 241.
Shuen-hua-fu, 385, 388 (text and note), 392.
Shuga Gol. _See_ Shugatza.
Shugatza, 212, 214, 218, 220–22.
Shui-Peh-Ho, 331, 336.
Shui-Tsui-Tsi, 345.
Shukr Ali, 18; installed as cook, 20; 54, 107, 112, 115, 117,
132; readmitted to service, 154–5; 184, 191, 316, 326; paid
off, 335.
Shushal, 34, 45, 49, 148.
Shushot, 40, 47, 50.
Siao Hsia, 304.
Siao-si-fu, 385, 388 (note), 389–90.
Si Ho, 320, 323, 326.
Sin Chen, 376.
Sin Ch'eng, 326 _et seq._, 331.
Sind Valley, 20.
Singapore, 421.
Sining, 208, 264; Fu of, 284; 292, 297 _et seq._, 317, 319, 331.
Sining Amban, 238, 284.
Sining Ho, 257.
Sining, the Tao Tai, 298–9, 303.
Sin-Tien-Pu, 301.
Si-Yang Ho, 384.
Sokpor Mongols. _See_ Tsokpo.
Sonamerg, 23.
Southern Valley, 296.
Srinagar, 7 _et seq._, 19.
Su-kia-pu, 309.
Sulloo, terrible accident to, 106 _et seq._, 113, 120, 121;
refuses to travel any more, 122, 127, 129.
Sumud Shah family, 10, 11.
Swedish Mission-house at Pao T'eo, 367 _et seq._
T.
Ta Ho, 264.
T'ah-rï-sï, 308.
T'ah Ri Ssi. _See_ Kumbum.
Ta Hsia, 324.
Ta Koe Ri, 270.
Ta-La-Pai, 331.
Talé Lama, the, 210, 270.
T'ang, Colonel, 306.
Tanjun, 65.
Tankar, 194, 209 (note), 210, 215, 246, 255, 257–9, 261–5,
269–70, 317, 342, 364, 365.
Tankar, Mayor of, 264–5.
Ta-ri-tsi, 384.
Ta Sand. _See_ Ho La.
Tashgam, 27.
Ta T'ung, 325.
Temple of the God of Literature, 301.
Temples. _See_ Gold-Tiled Temple, Green Glazed-Tiled Temple,
Flower Temple, Temple of Pan Ku, Peh Ma Ssï; curious Buddhist
temple, 375–6.
Teng, General, 299 _et seq._
Tents, abandoned, 95.
Teo-tao-keo, 385.
Theodolite, breaking of, 135.
Tibetans: routine of the camp, 204 _et seq._; courtesy and
honesty, 208.
Tickse, 40, 41, 47.
Tien Tsin, 330, 385, 411, 416.
Ting, defined, 388 (note).
Tippoo, 18, 23.
Tiri, 44.
Tokhta, 13, 19, 112, 113–15, 121; refuses to travel any more,
122; 127, 129.
Tong Hills, 213.
Tong Ku, 416, 417.
To-Pa, 301, 310, 313.
Tour-tsi, 384.
Treb, Lake, 63, 76, 77.
Trench, Captain, 18, 75.
Tsaidam, 1, 215, 219–221, 227, 234, 264, 280, 316 (note).
Ts'ai T'a, 263.
Tsang-po-chu. _See_ Indus.
Tsareng, Esa. _See_ Esau.
Tsokpo Mongols, 229 _et seq._
Tsong K'aba, 283, 287–90, 292.
Tsongt'u. _See_ Sining Amban.
Tuling. _See_ Selling Gompa.
Tuling Gol, 246, 247.
Tundu, 75.
Turkistan, 73, 130, 187, 248.
U.
Uang, Major, 299.
Uei-Kuang-Tao, General, 309, 310.
Umballa, 1.
Upchi, 42, 47.
Usman, 35, 36, 113, 143.
V.
Vaughan, 38.
W.
Walker, 398.
Ward, 38.
Wei Fou T'ai, General, 274.
Wellby, Captain: engages men, 7, 13; falls from his horse,
42; warned, 48–9; consultation with Rudok officials, 72;
retreats across the Napu La, 74 _et seq._; goes in search
of lost animals, 89; bathing, 99; yak-shooting, 117, 139,
182, 211; leaving the sick men behind, 122; shooting running
antelope, 128; desertion of the muleteers, 147; reappearance
of deserters, 152–5; rearranges the loads after calamitous
death of mules, 161–2; in lack of food, 168; shoots hares,
169, 177; difficult conquest of a kyang, 176; discovers a
māné, 181; shoots a goa, 183; crossing a difficult river,
184; signs of an encampment, 188; with the Tibetan merchants,
197 _et seq._; quits the Kushok's camp, 219; comes across
signs of an unfortunate caravan, 222; observes a large
prayer-wheel in a stone building, 225; sets off with Esau
to reconnoitre, 228; meets some young Mongols, 229 _et seq._;
first sight of Mongol tents, 241; in Lobsan's family tent,
243; appropriates an inscribed bone in a wonderful cave, 252;
the coldest night, 255; entering a Bana camp, 256; arrives
at Tankar, 259; Mr. Rijnhart, 261 _et seq._; visits the
monastery of Kumbum, 269 _et seq._; ghastly signs of the
Mohammedan Rebellion, 296; Mr. and Mrs. Ridley, 297; first
experience of a Chinese inn, 323; loses Ruby, 337; vexations
at Chong Wei, 346–7; on the Yellow River, 354 _et seq._; Pao
T'eo, 367 _et seq._; reaches Pekin, 406; carters arrested and
beaten, 412, 415; arrival at Tong Ku, 417; on board the
_Nanchang_, 418; at Hong Kong, 420; Singapore, 421; Calcutta,
421–2.
"_Where Three Empires Meet_," 23.
White Horse Temple. _See_ Peh Ma Ssï.
Whitewashing, strange way of, 286.
Wo-Ku-Shan-Ho, 383.
Wolf, Eugène, 412.
Wu La, 273.
Wupu, 264.
Wu Tai, temple of, 375.
Y.
Yak: cemetery, 175; considered as food, 177, 179, 181;
shooting, is it dangerous?, 183–4.
Yakiki, 43, 47.
Yang, Colonel. _See_ Hsieht'ai.
Yangtse Kiang, 1, 234.
Yarkand, 335.
Yellow River. _See_ Huang Ho.
Yellow Sect, 288.
Younghusband, Captain, 17, 18.
Z.
Zoji La Pass, 23, 24.
SKETCH MAP
OF
TIBET AND NORTHERN CHINA
Showing the journey of
CAPT. M. S. WELLBY AND LIEUT. MALCOLM
FROM LEH TO PEKING.
Map to accompany "Through Unknown Tibet"]
MAP SHOWING
CAPT. M. S. WELLBY'S AND LT. MALCOLM'S ROUTE
ACROSS
NORTHERN TIBET.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Captain Deasy, who marched over this same pass a few weeks
later, calculated its height to be over 19,000 feet.
[2] The annual tribute from Lhassa to the Chinese Emperor does
not travel by this road, but goes by Labrang.
[3] When we first joined the caravan on September 8th, they
said they had been two months and twenty-five days on the
road. They were expected in Tankar soon after we left, which
was on October 17th.
[4] There are about seventy of these "incarnate saints" at
Kumbum, among whom Mina Fu-yeh ranks sixth or seventh.
[5] Wei Fou T'ai, sent from Hunan to quell the rebellion.
[6] Fu-yeh is the Chinese equivalent of Buddha.
[7] Mina Fu-yeh is now in either his sixteenth or
twenty-second lifetime; I am not sure which, so have given the
lesser number in the text. This, is, of course, only since
he became an incarnate saint; there are no records of his
previous lives. Sakya Muni had altogether 551 lives, 510 of
which were prior to his becoming a saint.
[8] Mina Fu-yeh's abbotship came to rather an abrupt
termination owing to a quarrel with another influential Buddha
called Shertoch Fu-yeh. At the time of the rebellion the
priests were greatly exercised in their minds as to whether
they should fight against the rebels or not. Most of the
older men said that fighting was no part of a priest's duty,
while the younger men were keen to be in the thick of it. Mina
Fu-yeh, who was then abbot, said that they should not go out
to fight, but that they should make every preparation, and
if the monastery was attacked they should defend it to the
last, otherwise they ought not to mix in worldly strife. This
did not please the war party, who were headed by Shertoch
Fu-yeh, and who made up their minds that fight they would.
They went out on three separate occasions, and without doing
any good; several were killed, a terrible thing for a devout
Buddhist, for he who dies a violent death is reincarnated
in an animal, and must complete a cycle of sixty lifetimes
before he can again become a man. This made the war party
even more bitter against Mina Fu-yeh, as they realised how
much wiser the course he had recommended would have been, and
so inimical did they become that he had to resign his post
and for some time was in fear of his life. Most of them speak
rather disparagingly of his successor, who is, they said, an
insignificant Buddha, only in his third or fourth lifetime.
[9] Mr. W. W. Rockhill states that he was informed by Mr. W.
B. Hemsley that this tree is the "white sandal-wood." ("Diary
of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet," p. 68.)
[10] On former occasions he had stated to Rijnhart that he
would not go to Lhassa this lifetime, having been there in
his last.
[11] I cannot help thinking that this is the stone mentioned
by Mr. W. W. Rockhill ("Diary of a Journey through Mongolia
and Tibet," p. 69) as being in the north-east corner of the
Gold-Tiled Temple. He does not appear to have been inside
the latter building, and we certainly saw no stone there
resembling his.
[12] This act on the part of the Commander-in-Chief was
greatly resented by the people of Sining, for which reason,
it was supposed, he was afraid to enter the city on the 2nd
and 3rd. The officials of Sining flatly refused to acquiesce
in the Commander-in-Chief's acceptation of submission.
[13] "Dsun" signifying the particular division of the Tsaidam
from which he came, the remainder being really his name.
[14] A photograph of this temple, as it used to be, faces
page 64 of Rockhill's "Diary of a Journey through Mongolia
and Tibet."
[15] Shuen-Hua-Fu is erroneously called a "Fu," for,
strictly speaking, it is a Hsien. A Fu as nearly as possible
corresponds to our "city" and a "Hsien" is only equal to a
town, while a "Ting" is a place of the third class. A "Pu,"
properly speaking, means a fort, and appears to be equal to a
"Ting" in importance. In some instances a city may have risen
or fallen in importance since its title was originally fixed,
such as, for instance, the city of Siao-Si-Fu, which is not
much larger than a "Ting." In all towns of importance there
is a yamen or magistrates' office, and the head civil official
there is called a Fut'ai or Hsient'ai, as the case may be. In
any large district there is also a higher official called a
Taot'ai.
[16] Shahzad Mir, too, knew the direction of Pekin, so was
not likely to wander off in a wrong direction.
[17] Huc and Gabet state that Tibetans have a practice
of throwing these paper horses to the winds, and they are
supposed to help travellers in distress.
[18] Huang-mi means yellow rice, just as Huang-ho means yellow
river.
[19] Each camel man has a string of six animals, to the last
of which a bell is attached. The owner has hold of the leading
camel, and, as long as he hears the bell, he knows the rest
are following all right; if it ceases he knows something is
wrong.
[20] Sergeant Herring, formerly of the 2nd Life Guards and
Metropolitan Police, remembers well the time when he was a
member of the mounted escort allowed our ambassador in Pekin
in days gone by.
[21] Our tickets cost sixty-five cents each. This railway had
been open eleven years, and was at this time paying fifteen
and a half per cent.
[22] Distances in miles start from Leh.
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