The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-15
TRAVELLED TO Tibet
The Adventures Of Charming
Miss Taylor, Of London.
A Dangerous and riseky Undertaking
Her Trip In Asia.

vAScoUvER. B. G., June 1A-rSpecial. l.
Miss Taylor. of London, England, the only
woman who ever penetrated the interior
of Thibet. was an arrival OH the steamer
Empress of Japan. She is small in stature.
Her hand and wrists are small her features
fine and her manner gentle and pleasant.
In spite of this fact Miss Taylor has
Travelled where man could not have gone
and lived. She was connected indirectly
with . China mission. but having suffi-
cient means of her own Travelled
about as fancy dictated. Among other
ports that she had . fancy to visit was the
interior of Thibet Now the trade Of
Thibet Is held by China. and China is jeal-
Gus of having any one of any other nation
enter the country. because they know we'll
that if foreign devils" ever get into the
land of the Thibstans the Chinese trade
monopoly is gone. The Chinese have
guards all around the territory and far in
the interior their spies are to be met.
Miss TAYLOR started out first with four
servants and among them was q Mongo-
liam Mohammedan. who coveted her be-
longings and thought it would be q merit
orious thing to kill her anyway. This
man gave her o lot of trouble, and his
treachery at the end nearly cost her life
and prevented her entry into Lhasa, the
sacred city of the interior of Thibet. of
which so many strange stories are told.
Miss Taylor's party was twice stopped by
bandits. Once they took nearly
all her things away, but after
discovering that her party were not men,
hers of the faction for which they had
been mistaken. some of her goads were re-
stored to her. After many vicissitudes
she reached the Lassa district and got to
within few miles of Lassa city. Here
she found that her treacherous servant
had gone ahead and told the head men
that ii they allowed her to enter the city
their lives would be forfeited to the Chi
nese government; so the authorities, when
she came up, told her they were sorry and
would willingly let her enter the city, but
they dared not. She was thus forced to
turn back within sight Of her goal.
Ire Thibetans are q nomadic people,
but have one or two permanent towns,
Lassa. the capital, being the iasgest. The
people are governed principally by the
lamas or native priest. They practice
polyandry to great extent, many women
having as many a. three or tour hus-
bands. who in many cases are
OIOtucISs Ing 10 I'LL very
much above the sea level, some IL 600 feet
in the valleys, and she suffered greatly
from shortness of breath. The Thibetans
are herders, and many of them are splen-
did hOrsemen. They use . number Of
horses, and the OK in this country CORE
spends to the yak in Thibet. The yak Is
larger than the OK, and has . peculiar
grunt. like pig.
Thibet is wet in summer and cold in
winter. Miss Taylor has Thibetan man
servant with her. whom she says has been
faithful. When she finally reached the
border exit was refused this servant,
but she said in the Thibetan
language, which she understands per-
fectly: 'He goes or l do not.
You may kilt me II you wish. but my
man must so. See you this?" and she
drew from her breast small silken union
jack that she had carried through ali her
vicissitudes. ''Stain this flag with my
blood and the great mother, whose Sign
this flag is. will avenge my DEATH" Strange
to say. this obtained her not only exit, but
safe escort.