To the snows of Tibet through China (1892) (14597136549)

Identifier: tosnowsoftibetth00pratrich (find matches)
Title: To the snows of Tibet through China
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
Subjects: Natural history -- China China -- Description and travel Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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^Loads carried by cooliesâTradeâDis-tance travelled by caravansâCurrencyâSealing-waxâWomens feastâSanscrit inscriptionsâDespatch carriers between Pekin and LhassaâDeparture of Mr. EockhillâMisfortunes of his menâTibetan dogsâExpedition to Chet-tuâPoor loAgings^CrossojiHlon TihetanumseenâParnassiiis ImperatorâExpedition to the northâShootingCrosso2>tilonâPreparations for departure. On my arrival at the inn I found Mr. Eockhill, anAmerican, who had been previously attached to theirlegation at Pekin, and who had travelled from thatplace through the practically unknown region on theboundary between China and Tibet, I had been told byMonseigneur Biet that he was there, and was agreeablySLiriDrised that I should have an English-speaking fellowtraveller living in the same house with me for at leastsome days. I do not know how to sufficiently thank BishopBiet and the Fathers Soulie, Mossot and Dejean for alltheir kindness and attention to me during my stay.
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^^\B R K R Y Of TH⬠UNIVERSn OF FRENCH MISSIONARIES 13r> Everything in their power was done, and as they spokeboth Tibetan and Chinese, and were well acquaintedwith the peculiar ways and manners of the natives, itmay be easily understood that tlieii- assistance was in-valuable. Bishop Biet, a man with a highly cultivatedmind and refined taste, has been here, or rather in thedistrict, for twenty-five years, and here he will in all pro-bability end his days, for he told me that the missionarybishops are rarely, if ever, recalled by the Pope. Thelast European he saw before Mr, Eockhill, who, by theway, is an American, and mj^self, was Mr. Baber in 1879,and this is 1889. His brother, also a missionary, wasmurdered in Manchuria, and here both he and theFathers have to be extremely cautious even now, forthe lamas bear them no goodwill. My collectors wereall Christians, brought up from childhood by the Bishopand the Fathers, and were in a much more civilised statethan the Buddhist Tibet