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the mastery, there was nothing for it but to succumb, and 

 his throat would surely be cut. I endeavoured to comfort 

 him with the assurance that they dared not hurt Campbell, 

 and that this conduct of a party of ruffians, influenced 

 by the Dewan and their own private pique, did not 

 represent his Rajah's feelings and wishes, as he himself 

 knew; but the poor fellow was utterly unnerved, and 

 shaking hands warmly, with his eyes full of tears, he took 

 his leave. 



We were summoned by the Dingpun to march at 10 a.m. : 

 I demanded an interview with Campbell first, which was 

 refused ; but I felt myself pretty safe, and insisting upon 

 it, he was brought to me. He was sadly bruised about the 

 head, arms, and wrists, walked very lame, and had a black 

 eye to boot, but was looking stout and confident. 



I may here mention that seizing the representative of 

 a neighbouring power and confining him till he shall have 

 become amenable to terms, is a common practice along the 

 Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhotan frontiers. It had been resorted 

 to in 1847, by the Bhotanese, under the instructions of 

 the Paro Pilo, who waylaid the Sikkim Rajah when still in 

 Tibet, on his return from Jigatzi, and beleagured him for 

 two months, endeavouring to bring him to their terms 

 about some border dispute ; on this occasion the Rajah 

 applied to the British government for assistance, which 

 was refused ; and he was ultimately rescued by a Tibetan 



force. 



In the present case the Dewan issued orders that 

 Campbell was to be confined at Tumloong till he himself 

 should arrive there ; and the Rajah was kept in ignorance 

 of the affair. The Sepoys who met us on our approach to 

 Tumloong on the 3rd of November, were, I suspect, origi- 

 nally sent for the purpose ; and I think that the Amlah 



