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Bhot. Bagan monastery Tibetans, who resorted to places of pilgrimage 
in Bengal and its neighbourhood, should meet with Puran Gir’s hospi- 
tability. Captain Turner himself gives an instance of a tall, emaciated 
Sannyasi pilgrim from Tibet, whom he met in the streets of Calcutta, 
introduced to the Governor-General, and made over to Puran Gir to be 
lodged in the Bhot Bagan during the period of his sojourn in Bengal. 
Mr. Dalrymple also, as alluded to elsewhere, testifies to such facts by 
his personal knowledge. 
In speaking of Puran Gir’s last mission it has already been stated 
that he returned to Bengal after its successful prosecution. Captain 
Turner, in his most valuable memorandum of information, which he 
gathei’ed from the Gosain and which he submitted to Mr. Macplierson 
on the 6th February 1786, draws among other things, the attention of 
the Governor-General to the important facts which he ascertained with 
infinite satisfaction from the Gosain and says “ I learn from the reports 
“ of Pooruugheer, the flourishing state of the lately projected scheme of 
“ trade ; to promote which, he assures me, not anything has been want- 
“ ing in facility of intercourse ; that the adventurers, who had invested 
“ their property, had experienced perfect security in conducting their 
“ commerce, had carried their articles to an exceeding good market, and 
“ found the rate of exchange materially in their favour.” 1 
When Puran Gir was away in Tibet on the Government service, he 
had left the Bhot Bagan in charge of his cheld or disciple Dal jit Gir, 
but when he returned with despatches from the Tashi Lama, he found 
to his mortification that a portion of his, or the Lama’s, property on the 
banks of the river had been invaded and taken possession of by a 
zamindar. On the subject of this encroachment, tlio good Captain 
Turner thus put in a paragraph in the memorandum alluded to : — “ the 
“ little territory his adopted chela was left in charge of, having during 
“ his absence been violently invaded by Raaj Chund, a neighbouring 
(< zemeendar, and to the amount of 60 begas forcibly taken out of his 
« i lan ds. Prevailed on by his earnest and repeated solicitation, I am 
“ induced to say for him, that in your justice and favour are his only 
“ hopes of relief from his embarassmouts, and he humbly asks your pro- 
« tec t ion in restoring and securing him in the possession of his invaded 
“ rights. The liberty of this intercession, I am confident to think, would 
« he forgiven, were it not in favour of one who has rendered various 
“ useful services to this Government ; but though of trivial importance, 
« it affords also an authentic instance, of the encroaching disposition of 
“ inferior zemeendars. Yet another circumstance, it may not be improper 
“ to point out ; that the ground alluded to, is a part of the land situated 
1 Turner, ibid., p. 433. 
