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INTRODUCTION. 
augmented from a few companies to two battalions, was sent to dis¬ 
possess the invaders, and drive them back to their own frontier. 
The military weapons of the Booteeas are the bow and arrow, a short 
strait sword, and a faulchion, reflected like a pruning knife. These, 
though wielded by strong hands, and directed by much individual 
courage, were of little avail against the discipline, artillery, and mus- 
quetry of their antagonists; who experienced a much more destructive 
foe, in the pestiferous region through which they continued their pur¬ 
suit, after having driven the Booteeas from the scene of contention into 
their own confines. There the Raja, weary of the conflict, and alarmed 
for the safety of his own dominions, applied to Teshoo Lama, and ob¬ 
tained his mediation for a peace. 
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Teshoo Lama was at that time the Regent of Tibet, and the guardian 
of Dalai Lama, his superior in religious rank, who was yet in his 
minority. He was about forty years of age, greatly venerated on 
account of his sacred office, and not less beloved for the benevolence 
of his character, and the courtesy of his manners. All who approached 
him were his worshippers; so that he united, in his own person, both 
the political authority, and the spiritual hierarchy of the country. In 
his political character, indeed, he acknowledged the sovereignty of the 
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Emperor of China, who had a delegate, with a small military force, I 
think about one thousand men, resident at Lassa b , the capital of Dalai 
b In the pronunciation of this word, both in Tibet and Bengal, a strong aspiration 
is placed upon the beginning, Lahassa: but for the same reason that I have rejected a 
