The Mishmee hills, an account of an attempt to penetrate Thibet from Assam1873 |
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... reaching India at any hazard . Accordingly , I was arrested by two hundred Lama soldiers , obliged to change my route , and ultimately thrown into a Chinese prison in the city of Weisee foo , Assam Tea for Thibet . 3 from which , having ...
... reaching India at any hazard . Accordingly , I was arrested by two hundred Lama soldiers , obliged to change my route , and ultimately thrown into a Chinese prison in the city of Weisee foo , Assam Tea for Thibet . 3 from which , having ...
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... reached us , the calmness of my charges gave way , and , mixing with the now panic - stricken crew and Chinamen , they rushed to the boats . The scene that ensued was horrible ; the boats were crowded with twice as many as they could ...
... reached us , the calmness of my charges gave way , and , mixing with the now panic - stricken crew and Chinamen , they rushed to the boats . The scene that ensued was horrible ; the boats were crowded with twice as many as they could ...
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... reached the rendezvous late in the afternoon . Several of the party had already arrived , and the camp , which was pitched under some large tamarind trees on the river bank , presented a most lively scene . In and out of a spacious tent ...
... reached the rendezvous late in the afternoon . Several of the party had already arrived , and the camp , which was pitched under some large tamarind trees on the river bank , presented a most lively scene . In and out of a spacious tent ...
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... horse , I mounted a pad elephant to accompany the others , and beat up pigs , taking a fowling- piece , in the hopes of picking up some snipe and black partridge . Our ground was soon reached , and having collected a c 2.
... horse , I mounted a pad elephant to accompany the others , and beat up pigs , taking a fowling- piece , in the hopes of picking up some snipe and black partridge . Our ground was soon reached , and having collected a c 2.
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T T. Cooper. Our ground was soon reached , and having collected a number of beaters , we began work by beating up a nullah , or deep dry bed of a stream , thickly overgrown with tall reeds and grass , running for some distance through ...
T T. Cooper. Our ground was soon reached , and having collected a number of beaters , we began work by beating up a nullah , or deep dry bed of a stream , thickly overgrown with tall reeds and grass , running for some distance through ...
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