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THROUGH ASIA 
5000 Hang (about £jSo). The principal lama in the 
coi'tege, Garbuin Losang Ghinclun, told me that the 
embassy embraced no fewer than three hundred mounted 
men, and that the presents for the Emperor were carried 
by the same number of camels. It takes them three 
months to travel from Lhasa to Ten-kar; there they 
make a stay of an entire year, and after that resume 
CUP, PRAYER-DRUM, AND PR AYER- WHEELS 
Which I bought from the Dalai Lama's Ambassador in Ten-kar 
the journey to Peking, which they accomplish in two 
months. In Peking they stay three months, and rest 
again four months at Ten-kar on their way home. 
Garbuin took me to his house and showed me the 
Imperial presents ; and even sold me some of the cloth, 
idols, silver vessels, and so forth, so that this time' the 
Emperor would not get all that was intended for him. 
Whilst the bargaining was in progress we drank [tea 
brought from Lhasa near a temporarily arranged temple. 
