The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-02
SHE VISITED THIBET.
An English Girls Journey to the
Bounds of the Mysterious City.

AN English CHRIS Journey to the
Bounds of the Mysterious City.
From the Seattle Post Intelligencer
Vancouver, June 14-Miss Taylor, of
London, England, the only woman who
ever penetrated the interior of Thibet,
was an arrival on the steamer Empress,
of Japan. She is small in stature. Her
hands and wrists are small, her features
fine, and her manner gentle and pleasant.
In spite of this fact Miss Taylor has
travelled where a man could not have
gone and lived She was connected in
directly with a China mission, but hay
ing sufficient means of her own travelled
about as fancy dictated. The trade of
Thibet is held by China, and China is
Jealous of having any one of any 9th err
nation enter the country, because they
know well that if foreign DEVILS ever
get into the land of the Thibetans the
Chinese trade monopoly is gone. The
Chinese have guards all around the terri
tory and far into the interior their spies
are to be met.
Miss Taylor started out first with four
servants, and among them was a Mongol-
ian Mohammedan, who coveted her be-
lOngings. and thought it would be a mer-
man gave her lot of trouble, and his
treachery at the end nearly cost her her
life and prevented her entry into Lassa,
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 members of the fac
ton for which they hak been mistaken,
some of her goods were restored to her.
After many vicissitudes she reached the
Lassa district and got to within a few
miles of Lassa city Here she found that
her treacherQus servant had gone ahead
and told the head men that if they al
lowed her to enter the city their lives
would be forfeited to the Chinese govern
ment; 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.
The Thibetans are nomadic people,
but have one or two permanent towns,
Lassa, the capital, being the largest. The
people are governed principally by the
lamas or native priest They practice
polyandry to a great extent, many women
having as many as three or four hus-
bands, who in many cases are brothers.
The country is all very much above the
sea level, some 1000 feet in the valleys,
and she suffered greatly from shortness
of breath. The Thibetans are herders,
and many of them are splendid horsemen
They use number of horses, and the OK
in this country corresponds 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 a 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 perfectly: He goes or
l do not. You may kin me if you wish,
but my man must go. See you this7' and
she drew from her breast a small silken
union jack that she had carried through
all her vicissitudes. "Stain this flag with
my blood and the great mother, whose
sign this flag is, win avenge my death "
Strange to say this obtained her not only
exit. but safe escort.