Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi.

  • Ekai Kawaguchi
Date:
1909
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Credit: Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of tlio iiiethods he luul ineutioued was out of the ([uestioii for 1110^ aiul that my idea at tlie time was t(j follow the second course; although I was far from having anything like a definite programme of my journey. 1 told him, further, that 1 intended to wander on as the course of events might lead me. 1 left the Consul in a very meditative mood. I stayed a week in Fusokwan, and it was on the last day hut one before leaving it that I narrowly escaped a serious, even mortal, accident. As a priest, 1 made it, as 1 make it now, my practice to do preaching whenever and wherever an o[)])ortunity })resented itself, and my rigid adherence to this ])ractice greatly pleased the ])ro])rietor of that Singapore establishment. In consequence of this, I was treated with s})ecial regard while there, and every day, when the bath was ready, T was the first to be asked to have the warm water ablution, which is always so welcome to a Japanese. On the 18th, the usual invitation was extended to me, but I was just at that moment engaged in reading the 'J'ext, and could not comply with it at once. The invitation was repeated a second time, but, somehow or other, I was not ready to take my bath, and remained in my room. ^leanwhile, I heard a great noise, with a thud that shook the whole building. A few moments later, 1 ascertained that the sound and (piaking were caused by the collaj)se and fall of the bath-room from the second floor, where it had been situated, to the ground below, with its batlq basin, and all the other contents, among which the most im])orta.nt and unfortunate was a Ja])anese lady, who, as 1 had been neglectful in acce])ting the invitation, was asked to have her bath first. 'I’he lady was, as 1 afterward learned, very dangei'ously hurt, buried, as she w'as, under (hl)n's of falling stones, bricks and timber, and she was taken to a local hospital, where she