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TIBET. 
These Tartars came from a place which they said was situated upon 
the river Sullum, no less than fifty-two days journey from hence. This 
place, therefore, according to the common computation of twenty miles 
to a day’s journey, must be one thousand and forty miles distant. The 
following I understood to be their route, on their return from hence 
towards home: from Teshoo Loomboo to Lassa, twelve days ; from 
Lassa to Daum, ten days; from Daum to Sullum, thirty days. 
My next interview with the Regent, was in a chamber upon the 
same floor with my own, separated only by a long narrow hall, or 
rather gallery, into which we wore first conducted, and where I found 
an unexpected amusement, in examining avast multitude of diminutive 
images, the representatives of their dewtas and heroes, who had here 
fixed their abode. 
The gallery, as I conjecture, was about forty feet in length; having its 
aspect towards the south-east. A balcony projecting from the centre, 
fenced with a slight railing, and sheltered from the weather by curtains 
of mohair, served for the admission of light; opposite to the balcony,, 
in the most conspicuous part of the gallery, the images were ranged 
in regular order, upon benches rising one behind the other, from the 
floor, almost to the roof of the room. They were enclosed by a piece of 
strong iron net-work stretched before them. Some of these images 
were composed of that metallic mixture, which in appearance resembles 
Wedgewood’s black ware; but the greater part were of brass, or copper 
gilt. They were by no means ill fashioned, exhibiting an infinite 
variety of figures and attitudes, and adorned with such symbolical 
representations, as are appropriate to the respective dewtas and heroes 
