Nov. 1849. 



TERROR OF OUR SERVANTS. 



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their choral chants. After dark we sat over the fire, 

 generally in company with a little Lepcha girl, who was 

 appointed to keep us in fire- wood, and who sat watching 

 our movements with childish curiosity. Dolly, as we 

 christened her, was a quick child and a kind one, 

 intolerably dirty, but very entertaining from her powers 

 of mimicry. She was fond of hearing me whistle airs, and 

 procured me a Tibetan Jews'-harp,* with which, and coarse 

 tobacco, which I smoked out of a Tibetan brass pipe, 

 I wiled away the dark evenings, whilst my cheerful com- 

 panion amused himself with an old harmonicon, to the 

 enchantment of Dolly and our guards and neighbours. 



TIBET PIPE, AND TINDER-POUCH WITH STEEL ATTACHED. 



The messengers from Dorjiling were kept in utter 

 ignorance of our confinement till their arrival at Tumloong, 

 when they were cross-questioned, and finally sent to us. 

 They gradually became too numerous, there being only 

 one apartment for ourselves, and such of our servants as 



* This instrument (which is common in Tibet) is identical with the Europemi, 

 except that the tongue is produced behind the bow, in a strong steel spike, by 

 which the instrument is held firmer to the mouth. 



