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Guzerat; he then passed by Surat to Bussora, and thence to Constan¬ 
tinople; from Turkey he went to Ispahan; and sojourned so long 
among the different Persian tribes, as to obtain a considerable know¬ 
ledge of their language, in which he conversed with tolerable ease. In 
his passage from thence towards Russia, he fell in with the Kus- 
saucs (hordes of Cossacs) upon the borders of the Caspian sea, where 
he narrowly escaped being condemned to perpetual slavery: at length 
he was suffered to pass on, and reached Moscow; he then travelled 
along the northern boundary of the Russian empire, and through Si¬ 
beria arrived at Pekin in China, from whence he came through Tibet, 
by the way of Teshoo Loomboo, and Nipal, down to Calcutta. 
When I first saw him at this place, in the year 1783, he rode upon a 
piebaldTangun horse from Bootan, and wore a satin embroidered dress, 
given to him by Teshoo Lama, of which he was not a little vain. He was 
robust, and hale; and his complexion, contrasted with a long bushy black 
beard, appeared really florid. I do not suppose that he was then forty 
years of age. Two Goseins attended him, and assisted him in mount¬ 
ing and alighting from his horse. Indeed be was indebted to them for 
the assistance of their hands on every occasion; his own being fixed 
and immoveable, in the position in which he had placed them, were 
of course perfectly useless. 
The circulation of blood, seemed to have forsaken his arms; they 
were withered, void of sensation, and inflexible. Yet he spoke to me 
with confidence, of recovering the use of them, and mentioned his 
intention to take them down the following year, when the term of his 
penance would expire. 
