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

;T 1 li E T. 4ilThe Chinese general at length listened to their overtures, andgranted them a peace, vipon the conditions of an annual tribute to theempire, and the full restitution of all the spoils which they had carriedaway from the monastery of Teslioo Loemboo. Hostages were deliveredfor the due execution of these engagements ;the stipulations ofthe treaty were performed, and the army under the Chinese generalwithdrew, but not without establishing several militaiy posts alongthe southern frontier. So careful, indeed, were the Chinese to availthemselves of every possible advantage within theirreach, that theyoccupied an intermediate country between Bootan and Nipal, the territoryof apetty chief, denominated Raja of Segwin, or Seccum, whohad been sometimes vexed by the hostile interference, and longobnoxious to the caprice and rapacity of the Nipalese, on his oiferingto become subject to China, and accepting protection from the victoriousgeneral.left in charge ;A station was then established, of which a guard wasand thus the Chinese were put into actual possession ofa military post, immediately adjoining to the territory of the East IndiaCompany in Bengal.The Chinese commander attempted to extend hisfrontier over the|country of the Daeb Raja, which bounds the possessions of the Companyon the north, by a long continued line ; but he was not permittedto lead hisforces over the intermediate mountains of Bootanand, in consequence of the opposition made by theDaeb Raja to hisdesign, he was necessarily obliged to become content with establishinga station on their northern boundary, at Phari, which is a post ofstrength, upon the frontier of Tibet.