TIBET. 
THE 
HON. JOHN MACPHERSON, ESQ. 
; / 
GOVERNOR GENERAL, &c. &c. 
Honourable Sir, Calcutta, February 6th, 1786 . 
Having, in obedience to the instructions with which you were 
pleased to honour me, examined Poorungheer, the Gosein, who has 
at different times been employed in deputations to the late Teshoo 
Lama, who formerly accompanied him to the court of Pekin, and who 
is lately again returned from Tibet, and having collected from him an 
account of the journey he has just performed, and such other informa¬ 
tion as he could give me, relative to the countries he has left; I beg 
leave to submit it to you, in the following narrative. 
In the beginning of last year, Poorungheer having received from 
Mr. Hastings, a short time previous to his departure from Bengal, 
dispatches for Teshoo Lama, and the Regent of Teshoo Loomboo, im¬ 
mediately set about preparing for the distant journey, he had engaged 
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