An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

;BOOTAN. 1 1 1with an air of defiance. This sort of distant skirmish continued forsome time ; but the Raja's people gradually advanced till they had arrivedwitliin a bow shot of the villages, when they paused, and seemedpreparing to make a general assault ; but, before they could executethis design, the insurgents suddenly sallied out, and made them precipitatelyfall back, so that they were inclined, for the rest of the day,to keep a more cautious distance ;yet a party of the Raja's made afeint of moving tothe right, towards a village on the flank of the othertwo, which the insurgents seemed not yet to have possessed ;but theywere sufficiently alert, to defeat the attempt of the loyalists, by a timelyand effectual opposition. The Raja's forces, as the evening closed,retreated to their quarters, leaving the enemy, who were reckoned tobe three or four hundred strong, masters of the field. But the daydid not close without some bloodshed.Three of the wounded werebrought to Mr. Saunders; two of them, ihe Daroga, or master of thehorse, and another young man, were shot with arrows, that had piercedthrough the thigh ; and the third received his wound just above theelbow, pointing upwards, fie endeavoured to draw out the arrowbut the barbs entangling in the sinews, the shaft alone came away withthe effort, when instantly seizing a knife by his side, the courageousyouth cut a deep incision, and with his own hand extricated thehead.They were allimpressed with a strong dread of poison, with whichthey apprehended the heads of the arrows to have been charged, andthey pretended to be already sensible of its corroding pangs. Theysubmitted however to be dressed, expressing little hope of life, when