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

TI.^^'X. 259he was at present incapable '1 action, and unable to comfort themwith his voice. Their thoughts and time, therefore, were solely employedin the care of Iiis person (for this was tiieir duty and delight),in the hope that he mi^ht be soon able to confer upon them hisblessing. At the same time that he lamented the misfortune of theLama's decease in Pekin, he assured me of the firm unshaken attachmentwhich Teshoo Lama had entertained for Mr. Hastings, to hislatest breath.He added that Maha Gooroo had even begun to open hismind to the Emperor of China upon this subject, confident of hissanction and encouragement of the connection, and trusting that theconcord mutually established between them, would extend itsbeneficialinfluence over all his votaries, and all the subjects of both empires.He then dwelt upon the great attention and respect paid to TeshooLama at the court of China; and told me that the Emperor, immediatelyon his receiving intelligence of the Lama's regeneration, hadsent ambassadors with letters of congratulation,and a rosary of largeunblemished pearls, enjoining them in thestrongest terms to be carefulof the Lama's person, toconduct his education in the strictest privacy,and not to suffer any strangers to be admitted to his presence.But I must forbear entering into a minute detail of every particularthat passed at our different interviews. It would be difficult, orrather perhaps impossible, to preserve the local idiom, and turn of expression,in a translation through two languages ;and I am not certaineven that my interpreter repeated them correctly in the Hindovi, whichwas the language that he used to me. Suffice it at present to say, thatthe Regent was most copious in liis professions of attachment to the