TIBET. 
THE 
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HON. WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ. 
GOVERNOR GENERAL, &c.&c. 
Honourable Sir, Patna, zd March, 1784. 
Being now returned from the service on which you were pleased to 
direct me to proceed, I take the earliest opportunity of communicating 
to you the progress and result of my mission, in hope that my conduct 
will be favourably judged, with all the indulgence due to a limited 
experience, and the novelty of the regions which I was commanded 
to visit. 
I will not presume to occupy your time, by a treatise on the ancient 
state of Tibet, or an unimportant detail of the peculiar manners and 
customs of the people; but shall beg leave to follow the example of 
my predecessor, by enumerating such events as have happened since 
his return to Bengal, and which seem connected with, or in their nature 
calculated to affect, your designs in this quarter. 
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