Diary of a Journey Across Tibet

Capa
Rivington, Percival and Company, 1894 - 309 páginas
 

Outras edições - Ver tudo

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 37 - ... hills are seen. In every direction antelope and yak in incredible numbers were seen, some grazing, some lying down. No trees, no signs of man, and this peaceful-looking lake, never before seen by a European eye, seemingly given over as a happy grazing ground to the wild animals. A sportsman's paradise.
Página 84 - ... uttering cries, gave a feeling of life and animation contrasting strongly with the death-like solitude hanging over the salt lakes. It is almost impossible to get the correct names of places or lakes in Tibet, as every Tibetan lies on every occasion on which he does not see a good valid reason for telling the truth. Sometimes I have asked half a dozen men separately the name of a lake and received half a dozen different answers.
Página 102 - If one offers a man tea, ho generally refuses it, unless someone first drinks a portion in his presence ; and when offering anything to eat or drink a Tibetan invariably ostentatiously takes some in order to show there is nothing to be afraid of. We were also asked if gold, pearls, and rubies found a place in the European pharmacopoeia, and much surprise was expressed when Dr. Thorold assured them that they had no medicinal value. The Talai Lama is regularly dosed with medicines composed of those...
Página 190 - All right ; if you want fighting, you will get it ; but straight forward we are going." Voices were being raised . both parties getting very angry ; and it looked as if the fighting was going to begin then and there, when the Amban entered and peace was restored ; he got the Lamas to leave the room, promising to settle the question with us. He was very easy to deal with, and inclined...
Página 283 - ... to Lhasa, where there are a few Chinese stationed at each of the rest-houses ; but the children seem to grow up thoroughly Tibetan ; and...
Página 189 - They plunged at once into business, and said that, come what might, they would not allow us to proceed along the road to China passing through Chiamdo, but they would give us every assistance if we would go by the route passing to the north, which had been followed by M. Bonvalot and his companions. I told them I was determined to go straight on, and would...
Página 283 - ... up by a waist-belt during the day so that the upper part is very full, and the lower part hangs down like a kilt. At night they take off the belt and allow the robe to come down to their feet; it thus serves the double purpose of clothes by day and bedding by night. In warm weather, or what they consider warm weather, the right arm is bare, being thrust out of the coat ; in the front of the waist-belt thrust across the body, a straight sword, in a scabbard ornamented with silver and inlaid with...
Página 97 - On arriving at their camp, we were ushered in, and, after being seated on raised carpets, tea was produced. They drank it in Tibetan fashion, mixed with salt and butter ; but, having found out from our servants the European fashion, they gave us some plain. After a considerable consumption of tea, bowls of mutton, boiled with rice and onions, were brought in. It was really excellent ; but eating rice with chopsticks is an art that requires practice. The lower end of the tent was full of the denizens...
Página 96 - The answer to this was, that Tibet was forbidden ground to all strangers ; that the only thing they would permit us to do was to return the way we had come at once; and as for the friendship existing between the two Governments, that was no reason why the people of both nations should not stick to their own countries.
Página 102 - ... but were all a trifle long in the tooth. However, " never look a gift horse in the mouth," and if they lasted for three months that was all we wanted. The Kushok rather astonished me one day by expressing admiration of our beards, and asking if we had any medicine that would make his grow. As anything like a decent beard is almost unknown in Tibet, I should have thought a hairless face would have been more admired. The Lama was very anxious to know if we had any English poisons. Poisoning is...

Informação bibliográfica