JOURNEY TO TIBET. 20/ 



VIII. 



An Account of a Journey to Tibet, 



TO THE HONOR AELE 

 JOHN MACPHERSON, ESQ. 



Governor-General, &c. 



Fort William* 

 HONORABLE SIR, 



HAVING, in obedience to the inftru&ions with 

 which you were pleafed to honour me, examined 

 Poorungeer, the GofTeyn, who has at different times 

 been employed in deputations to the late Teejhoo Lama, 

 formerly accompanied him to the court of Pekin, and 

 who is lately again returned from Tibet, and having 

 collected from him fuch an account of the journey he 

 has juft performed, and other information, as he could 

 give me relative to the countries he had left, I beg 

 leave to fubmit it to you in the following narrative. 



In the beginning of laft year, Poorungeer, having re- 

 ceived difpatches from Mr. Hajlings, a fhort time pre- 

 vious to his departure from Bengal, for Teejhoo Lama, 

 and the Regent of TeeJIioo Loomboo, immediately fet 

 about preparing for the diftant journey he had engaged 

 to undertake, which employed him until the beginning 



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