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dictated by the purest motives of humanity, and has hitherto pointed 
with unexampled sincerity and steadiness towards one great object, 
which constituted the grand business of Maha Gooroo’s 3 life, peace 
and universal good. The Governor General, whose attention is always 
directed towards the same pursuits, was overwhelmed with anxiety, 
upon hearing the mournful news of the loss of his respected friend ; 
not only on account of his regret for the departure of so exalted a 
character, but from an apprehension, lest the friendship established 
between himself and you, might suffer interruption, and undergo a 
change. Yet, solicitous for its continuance, as soon as information was 
brought to him of your return from China, he determined that a person 
in his confidence should repair to your presence; a measure, which 
the consoling character of a friend loudly demanded, and which was 
rendered still more necessary, by his desire to convey his earliest con¬ 
gratulations, upon the joyful tidings of the Lama’s re-appearance in the 
world. In this great event, indeed, all his hopes are now revived; and, 
persuaded that the present Lama possesses the spirit of his former 
friend, he has no doubt that, by your good offices, and the will of 
heaven, every thing that was expected, will at length be effectually 
accomplished.” 
The Regent replied, by assuring me that the present and the 
late Teshoo Lama, were one and the same, and that there was no 
manner of difference between them ; only as he was yet merely 
an infant, his spirit having but just returned again into the world, 
a One of the titles of Teshoo Lama. The title is Sanskrit, and signifies the Great 
Spiritual Master . 
