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they impeded by successive crowds of votaries, who threw themselves 
before him in the way, in humble prostration, that it became abso¬ 
lutely necessary to form an intermediate camp, in which they halted 
for the night. 
Moving again early in the following morning, in the course of that 
day, they made their entry into the monastery of Terpaling. Having 
then placed the young Lama in the new monastery, together with his 
father and mother, to whose care he was still very properly committed, 
after making every necessary arrangement, the Regent and his retinue 
returned to Teshoo Loomboo. 
As the road lay in front of our apartments, I had an opportunity of 
observing the Regent’s approach. He rode attended by two or three 
hundred horsemen, the greater part of whom preceded him, and he 
himself followed surrounded by a select party, principally consisting 
of the officers of state. He was dressed in a garb very different from 
that, in which I had seen him before. It was a yellow satin robe, lined 
with sable fur, and fastened with a girdle round the waist. A garnet 
coloured shawl mantle, partially covering his satin robe, according to 
their fashion, passed round the body, and its end was gathered up to 
rest upon the left shoulder, leaving the right arm at liberty. He wore 
upon his head a round hat, covered with a yellow glossy lacker that 
glittered in the sun, and he had on red bulgar boots. From his girdle, 
hung pendant a small knife case, with its implements, and a large 
purse with a running string, in which he carried a tea cup, and seve¬ 
ral other small articles, the constant appendages of a Tartar dress. 
To this also are commonly added, a smaller purse for money, and 
