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TIBET* 
CHAPTER VI. 
The Regent.—Soopoon Choomboo.—Countries contiguous to Tibet —- 
Bengal endeared to the Tibetians by religious Prejudices.—Gunga 
Sagur—the Confluence of the Ganges with the Sea. — Jagarnaut .— 
Performance of Pilgrimage by Proxy.—A Devotee. — Geography — 
Astronomy. — Pranpooree—his extraordinary Course of Mortifi¬ 
cations. — Russia—the reigning Czarina. — Taranaut Lama .— 
Kharka.—Intercourse between Russia and China.—Pilgrims from 
Khumbak .— Gallery of Idols—Means by which the Cabinet is occa¬ 
sionally augmented—Teshoo Loomboo famed for the Manufacture 
of Images.—Lama of Luddauk.—War between England—America 
and France. — Commerce—of the English JVation.—Spirit of Inquiry 
and Research. — Siberia — Baikal. — Wandering Tartars.—No 
Tradition extant of an ancient People inhabiting towards the North. 
■—General Belief of the Origin of Learning.—Inference drawn from 
the Similarity of the Sanscrit and Tibet Alphabet .— Character in 
which their sacred Writings are preserved and printed — that of 
Correspondence and Business.—Regent notifies his Design of leav¬ 
ing the Monastery—commends me to the Care of Soopoon Choomboo 
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in his Absence.—Visits my Apartments, accompanied by Soopoon 
Choomboo and the Lama of Luddauk. —Science of Palmistry . —■ 
Attar, Pawn. 
