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and the great leaders, came forth to meet and to guard him on the high road . 
and they were waiting his arrival with eager expectation; and they obtained 
admission to the honours of audience in crowds, crowd after crowd, and they 
presented their gifts, and their offerings : and he laid his hand, conferring 
blessings, upon their heads, and made them joyful: and this was the esta¬ 
blished practice all the way. 
Thus he travelled on through the journies and the stages; and in the 
Soobah of Seur Pootaullah, which is a place exceedingly delightful, the 
Khawkawn of China met him, and saw him in joy and satisfaction; and he 
remained there with the King of China for the space of one month ; and the 
king prepared entertainments of various sorts, and made feasts after divers 
manners. 
And during this time the Gosein, Poorungheer, made known those things 
in which you had repeatedly instructed him; all of them he made known; 
and all which you had said and directed, was acceptable and pleasing to the 
Lama; and he took measures, according with the wishes of your noble 
heart. 
And to the dignified ^iges, who are renowned throughout the earth, both 
to those of China and to those of Kilmauk, and also to the Khawkawn of 
China, he explained your sayings; and he instructed them in the things 
relating to astronomy, and to geography, and in other matters, and in the 
principles of the religious institutions of which they needed information ; 
and they obtained explanations of these things, and they were favoured 
thereby; and they heard all which was related to them with the ear of 
attention. 
But at this time, because of our wickedness, the holy Lama accepted to 
himself severe distempers, and he retired from this perishable world to the 
eternal mansions; leaving; us, his followers, overwhelmed with the sorrows 
of separation. 
For those things which relate to the speedy coming to pass of the trans¬ 
migration, the Khawkawn of China, and the Lama of Lassa, that is the Dalai 
Lama, and the holy instructor of the king, Chaungeah Lama, and others, 
