A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet Author:Sarat Chandra Das General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: E.P. Dutton Subjects: Tibet (China) Lhasa (China) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acc... more »ess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. FROM TASHJLHUNPO TO YAMDO SAMDING, AND THENCE TO LHASA. On Wednesday, April 26, 1882, being the eighth day of the third moon of the water-horse year of the Tibetan cycle, I left Tashilhunpo for Dongtse, there to make my final arrangements for the journey to Lhasa. The cook, Dao-sring, nicknamed Aku chya-rog, or " Uncle Daw," on account of the dirt and soot which always covered his face, now turned out with well-washed face and hands, in new leather boots and fur cap, and helped me to mount my pony. Tsering-tashi, who had been designated to accompany me, had procured all that was necessary for a long journey -- butter, meat, pounded dry mutton, spices, rice, a copper kettle, an iron pan, flint stones, tinder, and a bellows, and the Tung-chen had presented me with tsamba, ckura, and pea-flour for the use of the servants, and peas for the ponies. Of all the articles Tsering-tashi had brought, the one which he valued the most was a bamboo tea-churn, which he thought the most beautiful and useful of all our belongings. I tied up my medicine-case in one of my saddle-bags, and in the other I put my clothes, and at 2 o'clock we started. There were five of us in the party, all mounted, and riding in single file : first came the Tung-chen, then I, then came Tsering-tashi, and the cook and a groom brought up the rear. We followed the same road I had already gone over on several occasions, and stopped the first night at Chyang- chu, where we put up in the house of our friend the Deba Shikha. April 27. -- About two inches of sno...« less