Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-10
MISS TAYLoRs UNIQUE TRIP
An English Woman Who Has Penetrated
the Interior of Thibet.

An English Woman Who Has Penetrated
the Interior of Thibst.
Miss TAYLOR. of London. Eng, the only
woman who ever penetrated the interior
OF Thibet, was On arrival Oh the steamer
Empress of Japan at Seattle recently. she
is small in statue. Her hands and Wrists
are small. her features fine, and her man
pers gentle and pleasant. | spite OF tins
fact, Miss Taylor, according to the PoN-
Inteliigencer, has travelled where man
could not have gone and lived.
She was connected indirectly with q
Chinese mission. but. having sufhcient
means of her own. travelled about as
fancy dictated. The trade Of Thibet Is
held by China, aud China IS jealous OF
having any one of any other nation enter
the country, because they know well that
If foreign devils get INTO the land OF
the Thibetans 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. bliss Taylor started
out first with four servants, and among
them was a Monaghan Mahometan. who
coveted her belongings, and thought IL
would be a meritorlous thing TO XIII her
anyway. g,
This man gave her lot of trouble, and
his treachery at the end nearly COST her ner
life and prevented her entry into Lassa,
the sacred city of the interior OF Ihibet'
OF which so many strange stories are toid.
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 faction for which
they had been mistaken, some OF the goods
were restored to her.
After many yicissitudes she reached the
Lassa district and got 10 within few miles
of Lassa City. Here she found that her
treacherous servant bad gone ahead and
told the head men that II they allowed her
TO enter tie city their lives would be for
teited to the Chinese 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.
The Thibetans are q nomadic people,
but have one or two permanent towns,
I.assa, the capital. being the largest.
The people are governed principally oy
the lamas or native priests. They prac-
tlce polyandry TO great extent, many
women having as many as three or four
husbands, who, IN many cases, are
brothers.
The country is all very much above the
sea level some IL 900 feet in the valleys,
and she suffered greatly from shortness OF
breath.
The Thlbetans are herders. and many Of
them are splendid horsemen. They use a
number of horses, and the OK In this coun-
try corresponds to the wax it lhibei. The
yak is larger than the OK and has pecu-
liar grunt like a pig.
Thibet is wet in summer and cold IN
winter. Miss TAYLOR has O Thibetan
man servant with her. who, she says,
has been faithful. When she finally,
reached the border exit was refused
this servant, but she said in the Thi-
betan language, which she understands
perfectly: He goes or do not. You
may kin me if you wish, but my man
must go. See you this Z" and she drew
from her breast small. silken union-jack
that she had carried through all her vi,
cissitudes. 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