The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-29
Mr.. Landor's First Lecture
Before an American
Audience at Major
Ponds.
IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND
Made to Ride on Spiked Sad
die for Miles Cruelty
Stretched on Lo.

when they invited them to hear Mr. Henry
Savage Landor, at their residence, No. 800
| Bergen avenue. Mr.. Landor left Endland in
March, 1897, to visit the forbidden land Of
Tibet, returning a complete physical
wreck. 1t was with a description Of this
| trip that Mr.. Landor entertained Major
and Mrs. Ponds friends, the first Ameri-
can audience before whom he has spoken.
He described his journey from Loacon
to Bombay thence to Garbeyang, ana the
dangerous pass across the Himalayas,
showing stereoptIcon pictures of the vari-
Gus places visited and the people of each
place. He showed paths up the sides OF
the mountains only a few inches in width,
and one place where he and his party mad
to cross by means of holes in the noun
tain side, just large enough TO admit OF
hands and feet, getting as high as zo,oVV
feet above the level of the surrounding
country. Here he saw his reflection IN the
rainbow of mist. He started out with an
army of thirty men. The cold and hard
ships were intense.
However. he eventually got his men all.
safely across the mountains and into the
forbidden land of Tibet. Then other ana
even WQfSG tt041tC <2aAs
put on the travellers by the natives and
soldiers set to guard them. They, now
ever, made their escape at night IN a
heavy snow storm and journeyed on
keeping to the mountain tops on account
of the Tibetians. Provisions gave OUT
while the men were in hiding, but oy
means of disguise Mr.. Lander managed 10
secure provisions from the very men sent
to guard his party. It was thus he learned
that 80 rupees had been offered for ms
head. Still keeping to the mountain tops
he journeyed on.
He described his visit to a Tibetian
Monastery, Illustrating a native prayer
with a little round revolving box on a
handle, as used by the natives. Then an
attempt to capture him and his escape
He showed portraits of the Tibetian
women. who, he said, numbered about n
to every fifteen or twenty men, and were
far superior. The natives of Tibet, he
said. smeared themselves with butter to
protect them from the cold, and some
times their faces with black grease for
protection against the wind. The dress
of the women consists of loose trousers
like the men, and a long cloak, while
the hair is we'll creased witt butter,
braided in myriad tiny plaits from which
is. suspended a device of strips Of yellow,
red and blue cloth reaching to the bot
tom of the cloak, and on which are
sewed coins, shells and precious stones.
A wedding is performed by means of but
ter. the groom placing upon the fore
head of the bride a square lump Of but
ter and vice versa. Thus the buttered
$50 -rg+hA1.t ~ cnpuf0a
whatever.
Thus the adventurer and his two ser
wants, all that wa sleft Of the original
party journeyed till they came to Token,
where they were captured while
negotiating for ponies. At this place the
people seemed so friendly that Mr..
Lander, was seized while examining a
pony and bound, likewise his servants.
But" remarked he, even in that it was
some satisfaction to know it took four
hundred soldiers to capture three half
dead men"
He was then handcuffed and placed in a
saddle made of wood with a high back.
from which projected spikes. A rope
was tied to the handouts and his pony
lashed to its utmost speed at the head
of the procession OF soldiers, one of
whom held the other end of the rope.
One servant was dashed until the blood
came while another was strapped to the
bare pack of a pony. They were thus
taken to Gyatsho. where other fortunes
to the log with Yak's hair cords while
placed upon a long log of wood with a
sharp edge, two men stretched his legs
as far apart as possible, and bound them
to the log with Yah's hair cords, while
another man held him by the hair. lie
was told he would be beheaded. His
executioners came with all kinds of inn
pliments Of torture. One who held a
sword stepped upto him and laid the
cold steel against his neck. 1t was with
drawn and the executioner made a blow
Just grazing his neck with the sword
point then the same operation was re-
peated from the other side. Before this,
however, a red hot iron was held in front
of his eyes. greatly impairing the sight
Of one eye even to his day.
He was left. however, upon the arrival
of his baggage, every article of which he
was asked to explain. 1t so happened
that his bath sponge had been packed III
the bottom of his tight water box had
became fattened and contracted. After
the mystery of this had been explained,
the natives threw it down.. 1t landed in
a puddle of water, and here the advel-
turer saw his chance. Speaking some
English words louder and louder, the
sponge began to swell larger and larger
the natives fled, but returned and
proceeded with the examination until 1t
came to the This one Of the natives
loaded, improperly, and putting his nose
in front Of the trigger, Tibet fashion,
fired. He was knocked down minus a
nose and a few teeth and blind in one
eye.A
The servant who had been strapped
upon the horse was then tied In like man
ner to the same log, a cord was attached
to each mans handouts and then to a
notched pole lifting the arms to almost
breaking height; a rope was connected
from neck to neck, so hat as one man
was pulled back on either side Of the log
the stretching was most painful, and they
were thus lifted all night, Mr.. Lander be-
ing told that he had n more day to live
that he might be the more tortured.
THAT said the speaker, was the
worst t~wenty-four hours ! ever exper-
ienced.p
He was eventually freed from this pain
full position. but had become SO numb be
scarcely felt ii. Il was a man with a
dead body d a live head, said he. HIS