The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-08-27
IN TH|BET.
The Remarkable Journey Made by
an English Woman in the
Cold.
Further Into the Mysterious Land
Than Ever Any Man
Went.
barriers That Were Accounted Almost
Insurmountabie Overcome by Her
Daring and Perseverance.

Brief reports have been received of tn
experience of d young English woman,
missionary, in the Wilds of inhospitabl
Thibet. Now there is at hand a story of he
adventures from the North China DAHL,
News.
On May 5 Miss Annie Taylor. the ex
plorer, passed through Shrinking on he
way home, having completed a year o
wandering.
Miss Taylor is 4 medium sized woman Of
Saxon build, with brilliant brown eyes, the
complexion of a traveller, and the air of one
who has suffered much. Her bearing, her
bright-eyes and animated expression show
her to be a woman of resource and imagfna.
ton, and in seeing her lively manner one
begins to understand the influence she was
able to exercise over the savage peoples
among whom she has been travelling alone
with her life in her hand. Sheis full of en-
thusiasm forth~eiviltza5ion and conversion
OF the Thibetans, which she hopes to com
municate to the peopleo of England, and this,
we haveno doubt, she will fully succeed in
doing. Miss Taylor is the daughter of q
gentleman Of means engaged in business in
London.
Her trip rivals in adventure, while in
NliiiGuiblGS okCiCoLiit IL SAttlS tiit tlEthSiS
of even Captain Bower and Mr. ockhill.
With the help of one Christian Thibetan
whom she took with her from Darjeeling,
she penetrated to within three days of
Lassa and returned alive to tell the tale.
But for the treachery of q Mohammedan
Chinese whom she engaged in kan-Soo
there seems little doubtthat she wo.lld have
arrived in Lassa itself. Miss Taylor says
thatfhef first attempted to enter Thibetfrom
the Indian side in 1887. Sikkim was not
English then, and orders were given that
no one should serve her. So, though she
had plenty of money, she could buy moth
ing, and was often very hungry. Then She
got fever and had no appetite. But after
quinine her appetite returned, until she did
not know which was worse, fever or hun
ger. Twice attempts were made to poison
her, and for 10 months she never saw an
other European.
Then she decided to try to get in from
China, and after spending about q year on
the frontier living very quietly, not going
out, but constantly receiving Thibetans in
her house, she received various offers of
conveys to Lassa. Before crossing the
frontier, about which she had no trouble,
she unhappily engaged a Chinaman whose
Thibetan name was Mega. She had two
tclUS, iCuI ScINtlllS ut-S- ttiStl To- gel ~
really good horses b. promising to give
them at the journeys end to Mega. One of
her first serious adventures was being at-
tackled by a band Of brigands with white
fur coats, leading each a spare horse. Two
were killed, eight wounded and five out OF
her horses killed, besides much property
lost. But a lama called out to the rob
bers: They are women! All womenr' a
she was not pursued. Among Mongols and
IhlDetans it is esteemed a dreadful thing IA
strike a oma SO that all women 90
about unarlned. although every man carries
weapons. As Miss Taylor saws. by the
Ihibetan religion it is forbidden to take life.
whether a flea's, a sleeps or a mans.
On Sept. 2S Che party crossed the Yellow
river on yak skins blown out with hurdles
laid upon them and drawn by horses. These
RATS We're awash all the time, and the W.
ter was ice cold. They then found them
selves in the Golok district, which is peo-
pied entirely by robbers. Their cfieftain
is a woman, and laws are strictly observed
in her domains, and no brides are taken.
The Goloks relate how five Russians came
to travel through the country and they
themselves went out to attack them 500
strong, but could kill none, though Il OF
themselves were killed.
MISS Iayior ndfuSllpS would require q
volume for adequate description. For three
days they lost their road. They had no
tent. That n every comfort had to be
sold, her servant having taken everything
he could from her before he left. When on
Dec. "A they found the road again, they hid
w in the hills for the whole of Christ.
masday. During all this part Of the jour
ney her sutTcrings from the rarity Of the air
were very great-palpitations, gaspings and
inability to digest their barley food. No"a
spread areport that Miss Taylor was travel
ing with & belt OF gold and jewels around
her waist. She bad TO travel by night, find
Ing the cold almost unbearGble. Tea froZe
as soon as poured out, and for three NIGHTS
they We're only too thankful to find refuge
i'll acaVe with barelyroom enough for them
ollie down, half ~suffocated By smoke, so AS
to obtain a little warmth.
On Dec. 81 they crossed the Drichu into
the Lassa district, but had to stop near
Naiuca, within three days Journey Of
Lassa, ewing TO Mega having gone before.
revealing that it was a foreigner coming.
a military chief arrived, and there was u
sort OF trial.
In the end Miss Taylor convinced the oCi-
Gals of the truth Of her story, saving the
lives OF her two ThibotHu servants, who
We're accused OF tretacheEOusly leading her
into Tibet. The chiefs told her that Us far
as they were concerned she could 70 on to-
Lassa, but they would lose Their lives if
She did, and they gave her an official ard
nine soldiers to protect her AGAINST The
Chinese servant, besides supplying her
most pressing necessities. Every where She
found tie IhibCtans express LIKING fqr the
English. They had been especially struck
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