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numbers of others, and the chosen successor (a child of tender years) will 
point out those of the late Simon Pure; then follow rejoicings and 
drunkenness ad libitum . 
Captain Pemberton could do nothing. In 1839 we have more outrages. 
In 1841, in retaliation, we attach three Assam dooars ; in 1843 we agree to 
pay Bhootan a revenue for these of £1000 a year, besides £500 for another 
district, thus actually paying the ravager for his crimes. 
In 1855 two Bhootan princes arrived in our territory, claiming an increase 
to this black mail, and on its being refused they on their return journey 
home plundered British subjects to the value of £286, torturing men to 
disclose their treasures. We demanded the culprits and restitution; both 
were denied, but we stopped the money from the next year's revenue, and 
were content. Thereupon the Tongso Penlow addressed a threatening letter 
to the British authorities, backing it up by outrages and robbery. We 
remonstrated again, using the now tiresome threat of occupying the dooars, 
and saying that should they apologize for their naughty conduct we would 
raise the black-mail by £200 per annum more. The answer to this was 
three further outrages and the murder of a British subject, just to vary the 
monotony of the thing. 
The Bengal government seeing some extenuating circumstances, resolved 
“ not to proceed at once to coercion," and the consequence was that in the 
next four years there were recorded 33 more cases of outrage, 45 British 
subjects being carried off into captivity, and in one single case over £2000 
of property being plundered. 
In 1861 the Bengal government decided to do something. One of the 
dooars was occupied, and the Bhootan authorities were informed that this 
district would be held until the captives were restored and the guilty parties 
punished. On this occasion the Govern or-General's agent. Colonel Jenkins, 
acted with too much decision, for he threatened Bhootan with further 
annexation in case of their refusing the British demands. On the Bengal 
government pointing out his error to him Colonel Jenkins expressed his 
regret and was forgiven. 
Still the outrages continued, not single exceptional cases, but in different 
districts, and in 1862 the Bengal government decided to send a mission to 
Bhootan. This mission left in the spring of 1864, and the Papers on 
Bhootan, presented to the House of Commons in 1865, furnishes the follow¬ 
ing particulars:— 
“ Mr Eden seems never to have officially reported to the government of 
India his departure or progress. The letter of 21st April, received here on 
5th May, appears to be the first official report of any kind laid before 
government. It communicates to government the entire failure of the 
mission. After pressing into the country in spite of as plain warnings as 
any native government ever gives that the mission was unacceptable, and 
in spite of insolent treatment on the way, the envoy reached Poonakha on 
the 13th of March, where he found the Deb and Dhurm Eajahs were 
puppets in the hands of the Tongso Pillo, the successful head of the late 
insurrection, and the very man who had been most injured by the annexation 
of the Assam dooars. By this man, who refused to treat except on 
condition of the restoration of the Assam dooars, the mission were subjected 
to unheard of treachery and insults, were derided, buffeted, spat upon, and 
