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

:TIBET. 269A poor emaciated meagre devotee came to me, just before I leftCalcutta to commence my present journey, who had with infinitelabour crossed the mountains of Bootan, encountered the noxious airof Bengal, and, with a perseverance worthy of abetter cause, accomplishedhis purpose of bathing in tiiesacred stream of the Ganges, inspite of all difficulties, which want and sickness could throw in his way:difficulties pressing with accumulated force, on a solitary stranger,utterly unacquainted with the language of the country.He was thenabout to return to Tibet, anxious to carry some of the holy water tohis employer. I committed him to the care of the Goseins, who livewith Poonangheer, in charge of the temple erected at the expence ofTeshoo Lama, upon the bank of the river, opposite to Calcutta ;andhe afterwards travelled with my party to the capital of Bootan, whenceI dispatched him with letters to the Regent of Teshoo Loomboo, whichhe faithfully delivered. While he was in Calcutta, I presented him tothe Governor General, a distinction which made him inexpressiblyhappy ; for, being informed of the friendship subsisting between theGovernor and Teshoo Lama, he had conceived a reverence for Mr.Hastings, which was only inferior to the veneration he entertained forhis sovereign Lama, in his opinion, the greatest of earthly Beings.In the discussion of geographical topics, the Regent's mind took avery extensive range, and scarcely left any quarter of the globe, untouched.Teshoo Lama had been visited, he told me, not many yearsbefore, by an itinerant Gosein, who assured his inquirers, that he had seena country, in which half theyear was day, and the other half nightand he appealed to me, whether tliis was a false report or not ; a cir-