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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    })recipitate leave of iiie. I afterwards learned that the Ijaiuas had had three hundred and fifty rupees in cash, and some books and clothes, stolen between them. * I was in luck on that occasion, for the owner of my shed told me subsequently that the thief, who caused such a loss to the Lamas, had been on the look-out for a chance to loot my lodging, and, as it happened, he finally made my newly made friends suffer for me; I felt exceedingly sorry for them. In the meantime I learned that the gentleman Lama’s name was Buddha Vajra (Mnlightcned Diamond), and that » the old priest, Avhose name was Ma3'ar, and who was full of jokes, was a Doctor of Divinity of the Debon monastery in Lhasa. Earl}' on the 25th of January we started on our journey, and proceeded due noi’th across the plain in which Sagauli stands. The next day we arrived at a place called Beelganji, Avhere stood the first guarded gate of the Nepalese frontier. There I Avas giv'en a pass, as for a Chinaman living in Tibet. Wc passed the night of the folloA\dng day in a A'illage situated a little Avay this side of the famous Dalai Jungle, Avhich may be regarded as an entrance to the great Himalayas. On the 28th vve proceeded past Simla, a A'illage at the onter edge of the great jungle, and thence, straight across the jungle itself, Avhich has a Avidth of full eight miles, until Ave came to a village on the bank of a mountain stream called Bichagori, Avhere Ave took up our lodgings for the night. About ten o’clock that night, Avhile Avriting up my diaiy, I hap- pened to look out of the AvindoAv of my shanty. The moon in her ])ale splendor Avas shining brightly OAmr the great jungle, and there Avas something indescribably Aveird in the scene, Avhose silence Avas broken only by a rushing stream. Suddenly I then heard a detonation, tremendous in its volume and depth, Avhich, as I felt, almost shook