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432 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
" Let writings be sent with haste to Namru and Nakk-
tsong that it may be known everywhere, that from Nakk-
chii inwards for as far as my (the Dakii Lama’s) kingdom
extends, Russian (European) men cannot be permitted to
travel south. Writings must be dispatclied to all the chiefs.
Watch the frontiers of Nakktsong. It is necessary to watcli
the country closely bit by bit. It is positively unnecessary
that European men should come into the Land of the Hoi}’
Books to spy it out. ,
In the province which is subject to
you both they have nothing whatever to do. If they say
that it is necessary, then know that these chieftains shall
not travel south. Should they all the same continue, then
you shall lose your heads. Compel them to turn and go
back the way they have come."
This document cleared up many points that had hithertcj
been obscure, and showed that we had not only the yak-
hunters, but also the Mongol pilgrim-caravan to thank for
it, that the frontiers had been so jealously and so strictly
watched. After that I could not deny myself the pleasure
of telling them honestly, that the policy of isolation which
they were pursuing was the only one by which they could
save their country from ruin.
" All round Tibet," I said, " north, south, and west,
Europeans have either conquered your neighbours’ terri-
tories or made them dependent upon themselves. Your
country is the only one in Asia which they have not pene-
trated into."
" Reh ! Reh !
" (True, true) they exclaimed. " That’s
just how we want to keep it."
Shereb Lama’s name was mentioned in the document,
and now here they had him before them, alive and in the
flesh, and they read him a very severe lesson, and told him i
that his name was written down in the book of the suspect.
But our Lama now threw off all reserve, and abused the
two messengers right and left, actually jumping to his feet
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