In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . STROLLING MUSICIANS STROLLING MUSICIANS r reaching the encampment of the Tokchim Tarjum thesame night. Here we were met by the officers who hadon a previous occasion brought us gifts, and whom wehad routed with all their soldiers when they threaten-ed us. This time they behaved very decently, the oldest ofthem showing us every civility, and professing greatadmiration for our courage in persevering against suchheavy odds. The old gen-tleman did all he could tomake us comfortable, andeven called up two strollingmusicians for our amuse-m
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . STROLLING MUSICIANS STROLLING MUSICIANS r reaching the encampment of the Tokchim Tarjum thesame night. Here we were met by the officers who hadon a previous occasion brought us gifts, and whom wehad routed with all their soldiers when they threaten-ed us. This time they behaved very decently, the oldest ofthem showing us every civility, and professing greatadmiration for our courage in persevering against suchheavy odds. The old gen-tleman did all he could tomake us comfortable, andeven called up two strollingmusicians for our amuse-ment. One man wore a pe-culiar four-cornered head-dress made of skin. Heplayed with a bow on a two-stringed instrument, whilehiscompanion, a child, dancedand went through certainclumsy contortions, goinground every few minuteswith his tongue thrust outto beg for tsamba from theaudience. The Tibetans arevery charitable towards beg-gars, and not only on this,but on other occasions, Inoticed that they seldom re-fused, no matter however small their donations m
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