the Kingdom of Thibet. 469 
feize every opportunity which could promote the intereft 
and glory of this nation, and tend to the advancement 
of natural knowledge, propofed in council to fend a per- 
fon in a public character to the court of the Tayfhoo 
Lama, to negotiate a treaty of commerce between the 
two nations, and to explore a country and people hitherto 
fo little known to Europeans. Mr. bogle, an approved 
fervant of the company, whofe abilities and temper ren- 
dered him every way qualified for fo hazardous and un- 
common a million, was pitched on for it. It would be 
foreign to my purpofe to enter into a detail of his pro- 
grefs and fuccefs in this bufinefs : it will be fufficient to 
fay, that he penetrated, acrofs many difficulties, to the 
center of Thibet ; refided feveral months at the court of 
the Taylhoo Lama ; and returned to Calcutta, after an 
abfence of fifteen months on the whole, having executed 
his commiffion to the entire fatisfadtion of the admi- 
niftration. I have reafon to believe that Mr. bogle will 
one day give to the world a relation of his journey thi- 
ther, accompanied with obfervations on the natural and 
political ffcate of the country. I only, in the mean time, 
beg leave to mention a few particulars, fuchas my recol- 
ledtion of his letters and papers enable me to give. 
Mr. bogle divides the territories of the Delai Lama 
into two different parts. That which lyes immediately 
contiguous 
