In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . din my pocket for my wants during the journey, and com-manded that, though I must be kept chained up, I was tobe treated kindly, and my servants also. When all was ready, Mansing and I were led on footto Toxem, pur guard consisting of some fifty horsemenriding on ponies. We had to travel at a great speed de-spite our severely lacerated feet, our aching bones, andthe sores and wounds with which vjq were covered all soldiers led me tied by the neck like a dog, anddragged me along when, panting, exhausted, and suffering,I could
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . din my pocket for my wants during the journey, and com-manded that, though I must be kept chained up, I was tobe treated kindly, and my servants also. When all was ready, Mansing and I were led on footto Toxem, pur guard consisting of some fifty horsemenriding on ponies. We had to travel at a great speed de-spite our severely lacerated feet, our aching bones, andthe sores and wounds with which vjq were covered all soldiers led me tied by the neck like a dog, anddragged me along when, panting, exhausted, and suffering,I could not keep up with the ponies. We crossed severalcold streams, sinking in water and mud up to our waists. At Toxem, to my great delight, I beheld Chanden Singstill alive. He had been kept prisoner in the mud-house,where he had remained tied upright to a post for overthree days, and for four days he had not eaten food nordrunk anything. He was told that I had been was in a dreadful condition, almost dying from hiswounds, cold, and starvation. 168. ^ CHANDEN SING TIED TO A POST PAINFUL MARCHES We were detained there for the night, half-choked bysmoke in one of the rooms of the mud-house packed withsoldiers, who, with a woman of easy morals, gambled thewhole night, and sang and swore and fought, preventingus from sleeping for even a few minutes. The next day at sunrise Chanden Sing and I were placed
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