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he was at present incapable of action, and unable to comfort them 
with his voice. Their thoughts and time, therefore, were solely em¬ 
ployed in the care of his person (for this was their duty and de¬ 
light), in the hope that he might be soon able to confer upon them his 
blessing. At the same time that he lamented the misfortune of the 
Lama’s decease in Pekin, he assured me of the firm unshaken attach¬ 
ment which Teshoo Lama had entertained for Mr. Hastings, to his 
latest breath. He added that Maha Gooroo had even begun to open his 
mind to the Emperor of China upon this subject, confident of his 
sanction and encouragement of the connection, and trusting that the 
concord mutually established between them, would extend its benefi¬ 
cial influence over all his votaries, and all the subjects of both empires. 
He then dwelt upon the great attention and respect paid to Teshoo 
Lama at the court of China; and told me that the Emperor, imme¬ 
diately on his receiving intelligence of the Lama’s regeneration, had 
sent ambassadors with letters of congratulation, and a rosary of large 
unblemished pearls, enjoining them in the strongest terms to be care¬ 
ful of the Lama’s person, to conduct his education in the strictest pri¬ 
vacy, and not to suffer any strangers to be admitted to his presence. 
But I must forbear entering into a minute detail of every particu¬ 
lar that passed at our different interviews. It would be difficult, or 
rather perhaps impossible, to preserve the local idiom, and turn of ex¬ 
pression, in a translation through two languages ; and I am not certain 
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even that my interpreter repeated them correctly in the Hindovi, which 
was the language that he used to me. Suffice it at present to say, that 
the Regent was most copious in his professions of attachment to the 
