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learned in the S'astras, with an unqnenching thirst for knowledge, in 
their mendicant dress, and with matted hair, orating cleverly in English 
in the midst of a large audience at the Town Hall, and at other places. 
And cannot Bhot Bagan or any other place be utilised to draw 
the affections of the Lama towards Bengal ? 
I cannot resist the temptation of quoting hero a kind of peroration 
and prayer of Sir. Bogle. 
“ Farewell ye honest and simple people ! May ye long enjoy that 
happiness which is denied to more polished nations, and while they 
are ongaged in the endless pursuits of avarice and ambition, defended 
by your barren mountains, may ye continue to live in peace and content- 
ment, and know no want but those of nature.” And who would not 
say Amen ! 
Appendix. 
Sanad, No. I. 1 
Square 
red 
Seal. 
Square 
black 
Seal. 
bUjj j JbseLwij Jla. 
<xn t— ^ .c b ^ ^ 
tl.y i , ^a! , 
immovably fixed over his head with the fingers looked into each other. “ The cir- 
“ culation of blood seemed to have forsaken his arms, they were withered, void of 
“ sensation and inflexible,” but ho assured the Captain that he would recover thoir 
use in the following year when his ponanoe would end. He is said to have been a 
Panjabi of the Kshatriya caste, he started “ by crossing the Peninsula of India, 
“ through Guzerat ; ho then passed by Surat to Bnssora, and thenoe to Constnnti- 
“ nople, from Turkey he went to Ispahan ; and sojourned so long among the different 
“ Persian tribes, as to obtain a considerable knowledge of their language, in which 
“ he conversed with tolerable ease. In his passage thence towards Russia, he fell in 
“ with the Kussaucs (hordes of Cossacks] upon the borders of the Caspian Sea, 
“ where he narrowly escaped being condemned to perpetual slavery : at lougth ho 
“ was suffered to pass on, and reached Moscow ; ho then travelled along the nor- 
“ them boundary of the Russian empire, and through Siberia arrived at Pekin in 
“ China, from whence he came through Tibot, by the way of Teshoo Loomboo 
“ and Nipal, down to Caloutta.” Turner, ibid., p. 271. 
1 Of the two square seals on Sanads I and II, the red seal is larger than the 
black one. The former, which is the Grand Lama’s seal, contains a legend, in three 
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perpendicular lines, in Lantshan (Nagari) characters, the exterior ones beings a (man- 
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