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

;112 BOOT AN.tliey heard that there was no certahi antidote, against the banefuleffects of poison.*•'The thVee villages, of which the rebels were now in complete possession,extended across the valley in a line east and west.There wassome interval between them ; so that the two extremes, I reckon, arerather more than a mile apart. In the morning, it might be observed,that they had very nearly completed a breast-work along the whole ofthis space, which afforded a safe line of communication from onevillage to another, the only break being between the westernmost andthe centre.This breast-work was a wall of loose stones, over whichthey could fire when they stood up, but which afforded them a completecover when they crouched down, the ends of their bows onlybeing visible above iLAbout noon, a messenger came to me from the Raja, desiring us towait upon him, and we immediately obeyed the invitation. He apologized,at the instant of our meeting, lor not having seen us duringthe last three days, his attention, during that time, having been entirelyengaged ;and exhorted us not to be alarmed at the present disturbances,comparing the insurgents tothe Sunneassees and Fakeers,that occasionally traverse, in tumultuous bodies, the borders of Bengal.''•They are a disorderly rabble," says he, " led on by a Zempi, whomI dismissed for his misconduct, and suffered to go away unpunishedbut he, availir.g himself of thisindulgence^ before his disgrace becamepublicly known, obtained under the sanction of my name, from variousofficers in my employment, sundry valuable effects, which heembezzled,and then took refuge in the woods. Our searches for him, in