APPENDIX. 
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No. IV. 
Narrative of the Particulars of the Journey of Teshoo Lama , and his Suite , from 
Tibet to China t from the verbal Report of Poorungheer Gesein . 
Poorungheer Gosein, who attended Teshoo Lama on his journey to visit 
the Emperor of China, relates, that during the years 1 77 7 , 1 7 7 8, and 1 7 7 9 9 
Teshoo Lama, or Lama Gooroo, of Bhote, or Tibet, received repeated invi¬ 
tation, by letters, from the Emperor of China, expressed in the most earnest 
terms, that he would visit him at his capital city of Piechein, or Pekin; but 
the Lama continued for a long lime to avoid complying with the Emperor’s 
requests, by excuses, such as, that the climate, air, and water of China, were 
very hurtful to the inhabitants of his country; but above all, that he under¬ 
stood the small-pox was a prevalent disorder there, and that his followers, as 
well as himself, were very apprehensive of that disorder, as few instances, 
if any, could be given, of an inhabitant of Bhote, or Tibet, recovering 
from it. 
Another letter arrived from the Emperor, still more earnest than any that 
had yet been received, telling the Lama, “ that he looked up to him as the first, 
and most holy being of those on earth, who devoted their time to the service 
of the Almighty; and that the only remaining wish, he now felt, was to see 
him, and to be ranked amongst his disciples. My age,” says the Emperor in 
one of his letters, {C is now upwards of seventy years, and the only blessing I 
can enjoy, before I quit this life, will be to see you, and to join in acts of 
devotion with the divine Teshoo Lama.” On the presumption that the 
entreaties of age and devotion would be complied with, the Emperor informed 
him, that houses were erected for the reception of the Lama, and his followers, 
upon different places of the road by which he would pass, which had cost 
upwards of twenty lacks of rupees : that all the inhabitants of that part of 
