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441 
The Chinese general at length listened to their overtures, and 
granted them a peace, upon the conditions of an annual tribute to the 
empire, and the full restitution of all the spoils which they had carried 
away from the monastery pf Teshoo Loomboo. Hostages were deli¬ 
vered for the due execution of these engagements; the stipulations of 
the treaty were performed, and the army under the Chinese general 
withdrew, but not without establishing several military posts along 
the southern frontier. So careful, indeed, were the Chinese to avail 
themselves of every possible advantage within their reach, that they 
occupied an intermediate country between Bootan and Nipal, the ter¬ 
ritory of a petty chief, denominated Raja of Segwin, or Seccum, who 
had been sometimes vexed by the hostile interference, and long 
obnoxious to the caprice and rapacity of the Nipalese, on his offering 
to become subject to China, and accepting protection from the victo^ 
rious general. A station was then established, of which a guard was 
deft in charge; and thus the Chinese were put into actual possession of 
a military post, immediately adjoining to .the territory of.the East India 
Company in Bengal. 
The.Chinese commander attempted to extend his frontier over the 
country of the Daeb Raja, which bounds the possessions of the Com¬ 
pany on the north, by a long continued line; but he was not per¬ 
mitted to lead his forces over the intermediate mountains of Bootan; 
and, in consequence of the opposition made by the Daeb Raja to his 
design, lie was necessarily obliged to become content with establishing 
a station on their northern boundary, at Phari, which is a post of 
strength, upon the frontier of Tibet. 
