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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![a train of small mountaineering cars, which, faring ever northward, forthwith began its tortuous ascent of the Himalayas, or rather, of the outer skirt of the mighty range. With its bends and turns and climbings, as the train labored onward and upward through the famous “ dalai-jungle,” it looked like some amjihibian monster on its war ])ath, as I fancied, while the grind of the car wheels, with its sound echoed and re-echoed, seemed to spread {piaking terror over peaks and dales. By 8 v. m., the train had made a climb of fifty miles and then landed ns at Darjeeling, which place is 880 miles distant from Calcutta. At the station I hired a (lanlee, which is a .sort of mountaineering jialampiin, and, borne in it, I soon after- ward arrived at Ibii Barat’s retreat, Lhasa Villa, which I found to be a magnificent mansion.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29351650_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
