New-York tribune., 1886-03-07


seemed TO be- the soles of which thick pads OF
white felt. These gave the wearer quite Chiheae
look and his pig-eyes and high cheek-bones auueu
TO the effect After a few minutes there paSso"
something still more Chinese; it was iunnla lher-
chant with his servants and his long train oi ladeh
vaks He was a Celestial all over, from MS plelah
neatly rolled up into chignOn to MS thlck Ioi,
shoes. After lie had stared at me awhlle he Sii'io"
AT me. the sweet Mongolian smile-there Is some
thing exouisitely bright and boyish about it-and
felt that was, indeed in the land of Ah-Sin.
Looking for the hundredth time up the dusty
path. | saw my own belongings at laSt-the SLOW
yaks creeping along with their noses on the ground
the Bhutas dawdling behind half asleep, ana far-
wananda. pale with fatigue and headache, swaylhe
like a sack on the back of Juuias fat pony lGsl-
gang was now close by, and the people had already
begun to crowd out of their houses TO look at u.s.
stopped moment 10 watch an old priest sitting III
the dust by the roadside. He was clothed III req
with closely cropped white hair and leather strap
around his shoulders to which were fastened al IN
teryals absurd little books full of colored pictures
HIS vacant eyes turned together as H. Ike tho
medieval Creek monks, he were trying 10 look INTO
himself He kept muttering continually perhaps
the sacred word ON" (HailD Of the Buddhsts'
which thcy sometimes repeat for lifetime, as q
means of obtaining merit. He held praylng-ma-
chine. which he kept in rapid revolution by shgh'
movement of his claw-likc hands. 1t was drum
like cylinder of polished wood attached TO SICK
a foot long on which it turned on hub II con-
tained prayer written on strip OF paper roled up
within it, have seen much pretter ones OF frosted
silver and others plated with gold and set with ru-
bies and turquOscs.
Now. am convinced that this old man was really
Koot Hoomi Lal Singh. or if not Koot Hooml at
least some other Mahatma of equal Importance
thought from the first that had never seen such an
csoterlc- looking man in my llfe and IN looking
him the magic circle, or mandaa' Wbich seq'ts-
ters one from the world about Plainly he was one
of those who like the Bon-pa priests, are aOle by
their force of abstraction to fly mp TO the SKY on
tambonrinc had a mind to Introduce myself, ad,
mitting that | was not brother, nor = chela'l
nor even member Of the theoSophlcal society Du,
mere exoteric mortal aud Yet a frehd OF MI
Uunp n countryman of Colonel Olc0tt. ana de-
voted admirer of Mr. Marion Crawford. Surely that
ought to fetch HIM Bnt on iGTGpe Idcmty IGT Gy
his soul to-day far away perhaps AT
Madras that Mecca of the Theoss3ophlsts, con con
cealmg mysterious teacnpS IN Madame bla-
yatsky's garden, or tclegTaphlng laerlal mes
sagcs from the spirt-world to Mr. Slnhet'
So through one of my Bhutlas wished my ancieni
friend n speedy attainment of Nirvana. lie looked
nm with little expression IN his fShy eyes, ana IL
was only after amnute or SO that he was snlh-
GENTLY reused to be surprised. but nc cVinPLc
bended nothing, there was no speculation IN MS
eyes the PRAYING machine still kept REVOLVING
and IN moment his mead sank down and he began
muttering once more. had alIehuy iii III 80 ,,S my
and went back and put something INTO ms hahd.
Then Koot Hoomi came back from the slnIi,I
world. ., ye Ihcosophsts, al none auu ro ro"d
only have seen his eyes brighten ana ms hngrIS
close 1t would have taught you potent spn'. ~
known TO the five Manushls and the three B1dhl-
Sattwes nothing else than silver four-anna Dlt,
enniyalent 10 ten cents ef our currency.
So we reached the village ana encamped OUTSIDE
Of IT, Our reception as ii seemed TO me was not
friendly one. though Parwananda, VINO haH ck-
pected 10 be murdered on the spot was SitatlE
relieved to meet with no violence. was amused
when he begged not to address hlu as
"Chuprassie" in the hearing OF the hahnlaS u
chup1assie being kind of Official IN d small YAK
something of the policeman genus, m 2I'i'p lIr
nerha1s they will let us go, bnt II they know
HAT / am GOvernmcnt-man they VIII surely XII
no all" We were not killed, aud IN Tact the pco,
pe seemed good-natnrcd enough. but they leI4seu
in sell MS milk. grass or fuel aud kept crowdIng
around the tent despite all orders To the cQhIIa!
Fortunately the Chinese oihclals llNed hlEh up
ON The hill at Tagla KOt, two mllos away, else
we might have been driven away from thc pace
that very nigdt. 1t was not nnlii ~ ci"cH, Iu1t
voice telling us all to depart instantly from the
Celestial Empire or be put 10 death the hrSt thlng
next morning. Ii was Il man sent by me nanuarih
TO warn us out of the country packet OF yea IN
some degree mitGated hIs wrath but SIM heaId
him arguing in broken lllndustlana wlth IaI"?-
nauda outside the tent, ana III the mast ol thcH
discussion happily tell asleep.
Next morning Parwananda, who had Iong ago
given himself mp for lost, annoDnceh WIN Inc @
calmness of despair that the Mandarin had come
with all his forces to sweep ne of the tace oi me
earth Ana in fact, before | hulshed my morning
tea a Chinese Official rode up on shaggy. snort
legged short wlndcd pony, accompanied ny ran
bic of almond-eyod followers armed with III" most
absurd old matchlocks have ever seen outside
of Greece However, he WAS most polite, ne sa-
Ioonnd i'm what lie thought the approved ilIndoO
met thod and at once won my heart by WAVING pack
his people. from whose dirty shccPskins had an
. lfI ,rttr lnf "a d.
ding. He took hisseat glngeriX OH my Only chall,
and selzng the unhappy BhadWa-One OF my
Bhutia coohes-Dy the shoulder tuckea iiih paicIII
naliy under ms arm and remarked thaI lie "ouiu
do for an Interpreter. | offered my lord some YEA
but he dsclned-the llunnlas have some FAINT ldea
Of caste and pollution borrowed from their south
ern nelghbors But he looked so longingly at a
saucer of sugar placed near the teapot, that
handed 1t to him, and the beqming smile
with which he received 1t showed that
/ had scored one so began our conference
NV visitor who held the rank of "Magh Ban
something like mayor, sat with MS great h%heep %
SKIN cloak covering himself and tho ground ABOUT
him one hand buslly conveying the sugar 10 MS
mouth the other abstractedly lingering MS l0hG
pigtail which lay across his knees ana nls wIhch
wouId require many virtues to counterbalance IT.
If many virtues can counterbaIance nose spreau
all over ones countenance-and doubt IL the VT
| tues were present In his case. lie had, AZ tnc
novelists say, rascal written on his face IN the
largest characters lie began OI warning me W u
| part forthwith The mandarin hls supenor-ca,led
| n "Gar-pan had so directed. Nhat business had
| an AngreM Engshman) IN the Chinese domnlons
| At daybreak next morning the Garpan would come
with the $50 LaSaas from the monastery ana scze
nv property and Kill INC and my followers. ncio u
| Lama who knelt behind the Magh Bans chair
Strengthened up and Looked fierce, If he meant to
| do n great part of the slaughter himself. THIS was
| a had beginning. But the sugar gradually soitcned
| the great mans wrath, and as he more ana more
laid bare the bottom of the saucer his manner De.
came more mild and he frequently smiled WIN Wat
wonId be called bengnant air in II better-looking
man. Seeing that showed a disposition to q4e6-
ton his right to turn me out OF the country anu W
enlarge ON the Harmless, OF butterhy-catchln9
the difference between Americans and EngllslInen,
| and the friendship between our country ana
! CHINA, ne waved his hand in dismissal or these
| eiJe issues and brought me back to the point.
The point was how much would give him to let
me STAY two or three days longer at Iaslgang, uh-
| known TO the mandarin. There was something naive
ahont this proposal especially as some hundreds OF
| a. foiIoyeTs were hanging about and listening TO