him at Guntok in about six weeks' time, when wo should make the 

 necessary arrangements for cur (ravel ling together. To mv (lisnp]>i>int- 

 ment, theexiL , i,t prevented him from earning 



out h- intention, and 1 was obliged to abandon the idea of going alone 

 to Lhon;d<,as Mr. White eon-ider-l it inadvisahle on in\ part to attempt 

 it whilo important neg ■ ■ frontier were pending 



wit)= she Tibetans. 



lie kindly forwarded to me parwanas written in Tibetan and 

 addressed general h 10 the headnmn of \illagvs, ordering them to render 

 me whatever assistance I required, but at the same time lie wisely 

 advised me not to depend on procuring earners or supplies from the 

 inhabitants. His passports were of the utmost value to me on the rare 



these indolent people would have been loth to afford me had I not 1m en 

 -<]• '"1 *'\ such indisputahl. mthoiity. \ s I }, „l no hopes of 



, ' it fatal ns, regulating 



times avoidu '..' ,X\r\T would ''have 



IMieaMeiird m\ men and caused their desertion, a most undesirable 



The slothful and improvident habits of the inhabitants prevent them 



from, growing more grain than is actually neee-arv for their hare 



enterprise, which improbably due i., : out . -i" and 



Being thrown on my own resource-, and bavin"- permission from 



ih,s ''•-.-tni-tion divi.les my narr;itive into three parts, -i 



- ! '" ; " :i of T:i " oxce-liuglv moiM moun'ain- ibrmnu; the 

 that of the tempa Jte and 



