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

432 TIBET.out of his hands. Prevailed on by his earnest and repeated solicitation,I am induced to say for him, that in your justice and favour arehis only hopes of relief from his embarrassments ;and he humbly supplicatesyour protection in restoring, and securing him in the possessionof his invaded rights. The liberty of this intercession, I am condentto think, would be forgiven, were itnot in favour of one who hasrendered various useful services to this government ; but though oftrivial importance, it afibrds also an authentic instance, of the encroachingdisposition of inferior Zemeendars. Yet another circumstanceit may not be improper to point out ; that the ground alludedto, is a part of the land situated on the western bank of the river,opposite to Calcutta, which was formerly granted,under a sunnud ofthis government, to Tcshoo Lama, for the foundation of a place ofworship, and as a resort for those pilgrims of his nation, who mightoccasionally make visits to the consecrated Ganges.Having, in conformity to your commands, done my best endeavoursliterally to translate all the information Poorungheer could give me, Ihave now to apologize for the prolixity of the account, in which Ihave been induced to be particularly minute, as I conceived that everycircumstance, however trivial, might in some degree be interesting,whicli tends to illustrate any traitin the national character of a peoplewith whom we are but recently become acquainted,and with whom,in its extended views, it has been an object of this government toobtain a closer alliance.I will not now presume to intrude longer on your time, by addingany observations, or conjectures, deducible from the elevated impor-