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threatened with imprisonment and the stocks. With difficulty the mission 
obtained permission to return after the envoy and Cheeboo Lama had signed 
an agreement in duplicate that the British government would re-adjust 
the whole boundary between the two countries, restore the Assam dooars, 
deliver up all runaway slaves and political offenders who had taken refuge 
in British territory, and consent to be punished by the Bhootan and Gooch 
Behar governments, acting together, if they ever made encroachments on 
Bhootan, The envoy resolved to sign this document after considering in 
concert with the other officers of the mission and rejecting the only other 
courses which appeared open to him, viz, first, that he and Cheeboo Lama 
should remain as hostages on condition of the rest of the camp being 
permitted to return ; and, second, attempting to escape by night. Both 
copies of the agreement which he signed were marked as signed f under 
compulsion/ 
“ There are three important points on which the envoy appears to have 
departed from the explicit instructions which were given to him: 
u 1st, He seems to have pushed on ahead, leaving the presents* to 
be brought up afterwards, whereas he was told to open his negotiations 
by delivering the presents. 
“ 2nd, He commenced his negotiations by delivering to the Durbar a 
copy of the draft treaty, thereby showing his whole hand, although 
several of the clauses were alternative, and some of them he was required 
not to press if they interfered with the political objects to be obtained. 
It is remarkable that the only clauses to which formal objection was 
made, however insincere and treacherous the Durbar may have been, 
were those articles (8 and 9) on which government entertained doubts, 
and one of which the envoy was instructed not to press. 
“ 3rd, Although the envoy marked the documents as signed under 
compulsion, he gave the Durbar no reason to believe that he had done 
so; on the contrary, the papers appear to have been signed with all 
the formalities of a voluntary engagement, and the envoy accepted 
presents for the Governor-General. All this was a deliberate violation 
of the last paragraph of the instructions of 25th September, 1863. 
“ The envoy asks instructions as to the disposal of the presents, consisting 
of three ponies and some pieces of silk, whether they are to be sold or 
returned through the Dalimkote Soubali; he also seems to have received a 
letter to the Governor-General, which he has not yet submitted.” 
The consequence of the treatment of this mission by the Bhooteas, was the 
war in 1864-65, when the government decided to attack the dooars or level 
country of Bhootan. 
The two Penlows before mentioned have full power of life and death, and 
for the government of their respective countries they have under them 
officers styled Soubahs and lungpeus; but these men's power is most 
a He has cot furnished the list of these presents, which he was toldfo submit. 
