Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . 7, whose gilded belfries and red walls tower ENORMOUS GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. 18:. FOLLOWING THE DEAD TO THK CEMETERY. above the poorer houses of the lower town. Then appears Nemling, cr Heavenly Garden, and Gyanzeh. Lassa, which is next, is 11,580 feet in the air, and the capital of both Tibet and Wei. The name means Throne of God, and for the Mongolians it is
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . 7, whose gilded belfries and red walls tower ENORMOUS GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. 18:. FOLLOWING THE DEAD TO THK CEMETERY. above the poorer houses of the lower town. Then appears Nemling, cr Heavenly Garden, and Gyanzeh. Lassa, which is next, is 11,580 feet in the air, and the capital of both Tibet and Wei. The name means Throne of God, and for the Mongolians it is the morke-jot, or eternal sanctuary. 184 ENORMOUS GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. The number of priests constantly in service at Lassa is placedat 20,000. Vast throngs of pilgrims are always coming from allparts of Tibet and even from the frontiers beyond. The palace ofPotala, within the city, and the residence of the sovereign, forms agroup of fortifications, temples and monasteries, surmounted bya dome entirely covered with gilded plates and surrounded by aperistyle of gilded columns. The Zungarians destroyed this palacein the eighteenth century, but it was replaced with one of greatergorgeousness. The streets of Lassa are broad and regular, and are flankedby whitewashed houses of stone, brick and earth. One of the
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