A JOURNEY TO TIBET. fir 



Fible to the privilege, Teefhoo Lama made, in the fame 

 order, fuitable returns to each, and the confummation 

 Lifted forty days. 



Many importunities were ufed with Dalai Lama to 

 prolong his flay at Tee/Jioo Loomboo, but he excufed 

 himfelf from incumbering the capital any longer with 

 fo numerous a concourfe of people as attended on his 

 movements, and deeming it expedient to make his ab- 

 fence as fhort as poffible from the feat of his authority, 

 at the expiration of forty days he withdrew with all his 

 fuite to Lajfa, and the Emperor's Ambaffador received 

 his difmiffion to return to China: and thus terminated 

 this famous feftival. 



With refpeci to the lately eftablifhed commercial 

 intercourfe, Poorungeer informs me, that though fo 

 early, he found himfelf not the firft perfon who had 

 arrived at Teejlwo Loomboo from Bengal. Many mer- 

 chants had already brought their commodities to mar- 

 ket, and others followed before he left it. He heard 

 from no quarter any complaint of impediment or Iofs, 

 and concludes, therefore, that all adventurers met the 

 fame eafy accefs and ready aid, as he himfelf had every 

 where experienced. The markets are well flocked 

 with EngliJJi and Indian articles, yet not in fo great a 

 degree as to lower the value of commodities below the 

 prices of the two or three laft preceding years. Bullion 

 was fomewhat reduced in worth in comparifon with the 

 year 1783. A pootree, or bulfe of gold duft, the fame 

 quantity that then fold for twenty-one indermillees, was 

 procurable of a purer quality for nineteen and twenty 

 indermillees. A talent of filver, which was then 50a, 

 was 450 indermillees; fo that the exchange was much 

 in favor of the trader, 



Poorungeer % 



