HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS RULERS. 25 



Changzed Kar-po came to Kalimpong to meet the Hon'ble Sir Ashley 

 Eden, the then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. The question of 

 Nepalese settling in Sikhim was there discussed, and Nepalese settlers 

 were admitted in certain parts under certain restrictions. This 

 agreement, owing to the intrigues of the exiled Dewan Namgay, the 

 Dorjee Loi:)en of Pemiongclii and Norden Gelong, tahsildar at Kalim- 

 pong, did not work well, and events culminated in the disturbances 

 and fight at Rhenok in 1 880. Mr. A. "W. Paul was then sent to settle 

 matters at Tumlong, and a fresh agreement was drawn up and 

 promulgated on the 14th April 1880, This, with some slight modi- 

 tications arranged by tlie Phodang Lama and the Dorjee Lopeu, 

 worked well. 



Changzed Kar-po, after a visit to Giautzi, where he met the 

 Chinese Amban and some of the Tibetan officials, died in 1879. This 

 visit apparently took place shortly after the interview with Sir Ashley 

 Eden, and appears to have resulted in some secret agreement with 

 Tibet and the investiture of Thothub Namgy^ with a Chinese button 

 of the 1st rank (plain coral). 



As stated above, Rani Pending died in 1880, and these two 

 deaths threw the whole power of the State into the hands of the old 

 Rani Men-chi and Dewan Namgay, who naturally, from living wholly 

 at Clmmbi, favoured Tibetan interests and the cause of young Tinle, 

 then growing up to manhood. 



Raja Thothub meanwhile lived peacefully, at Tumlong and 

 evinced no disposition to contract a second marriage. However, 

 pressure seems to have been brought to bear on him, and so having 

 obtained two elephants from the Government of Bengal in 1881, he sent 

 them to the Grand Lamas at Tashelhunpo and Lhassa, in charge of 

 Nudup Gyaltsen (brother of the Phodang Lama) and the Rhenok 

 Kazi. These officers, when at Lhassa, arranged a marriage between 

 the Raja and the daughter of Shafe Utok, one of the leading men 

 in Tibet. 



Unfortunately the old Rani and her son Tinle, accompanied by 

 Dewan Namgay, followed shortly afterwards in 1882-83, and, appar- 

 ently in furtherance of their design to place Tinle in direct succession 

 to the Raj, broke off this match, and secured as a wife to the Raja the 

 daughter of an inferior officer in the Dalai Lama's court, known as 

 Leden-se. It is said that the old Rani had to execute a bond, guaran- 

 teeing that the Raja of Sikhim would i-eceive the girl as his Kani; 

 but without the slightest attempt at a show of decency, the girl 

 immediately went to live with Tinie, and by the time the party 

 returned from Lhassa to Chumbi, she was very far gone in pregnancy, 

 and in fact bore two children before Raja Thothub ever saw her. 

 All this helped the intrigues in favour of Tinle, as his joint marriage 



