Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi.
- Ekai Kawaguchi
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lay with very little hope of recovery. I often shudder to think of what 'would have heconie of me and of my Tibetan adventure^ had I been more ])rom])tj as I had alwaj^s been till then, in responding to all invitations of the kind. I felt exceedingly sorry for the lady, who met the awful accident practically in 1113' stead; withal I look back to the incident as one that augured Avell for m}'^ Tibetan undertaking, which, indeed, ended in success. The day after the accident, on the 19th of July, I took passage on an English steamer, the LiyJdmiig, which, after calling at Penang, brought me to Calcutta on the 25th of the month. Placing myself under the care of the Mahabodhi Society of Calcutta, I spent several days in that cit}^, in the course of which I learned from Mr. Chandra Bose, a Secretary of the Society, that I could not do better for my purpose than to go to Darjeeling, and make mj^self a pupil of Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra J)as, who, as I was told, had some time before s,pent several months in Tibet, and was then compiling a Tibetan-English dictionary at his country house in Darjeeling. Mr. Chandra Bose was good enough to write a letter of introduction to the scholar at Darjeeling in my favor, and, with it and also with kind parting wishes of my countrymen in the city and others, I left Calcutta on August 2nd, b} rail. Heading north, the train in almost no time brought its passengers to the river Gahga. We crossed the mighty stream in a steamer, and then boarded another train on the other side. Heading north still, the train now passed through cocoa- nut groves and green paddj'-fields, over which, as night came on, giant hre-llies, the like of which in size are not to be found in Japan, flew aboiit in immense swarms. The sight was especially interesting after the moon had disappeared. The following morning, that is, on the 3rd of August, the train pulled up at Siligree Station, and there its passengers, including myself, were transferred to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29351650_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
