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the climate--The valley of the Brahmaputra--Running risks Pp. 306-308
LXI Expecting trouble--Along the Brahmaputra--A thunderstorm--A dilemma--A dangerous river--Swamped--Saved--Night disturbers--A new friend Pp. 309-312
LXII Leaving the course of the river--A pass--An arid plain--More vanishing soldiers--Another river--A mani wall--Mirage?--A large Tibetan encampment--The chain of mountains north of us Pp. 313-315
LXIII A commotion--An invitation declined--The tents--Delicacies--The Chokseh Pp. 316-320
LXIV Refusal to sell food--Women--Their looks and characteristics--The Tchukti--A Lhassa lady Pp. 321-326
LXV Polyandry--Marriage ceremonies--Jealousy--Divorce--Identification of children--Courtship--Illegitimacy--Adultery Pp. 327-333
LXVI Tibetan funerals--Disposal of their dead--By cremation--By water--Cannibalism--Strange beliefs--Revolting barbarity--Drinking human blood--The saints of Tibet Pp. 334-337
LXVII Another commotion--Two hundred soldiers--A stampede--Easy travelling--A long mani wall--Mosquitoes Pp. 338-341
LXVIII Washing-day--A long march--Kiang and antelope--Benighted--The purchase of a goat--Ramifications of the Brahmaputra--A d��tour--Through a swamp--Mansing again lost and found Pp. 342-345
LXIX The alarm given--Our bad manners--A peaceful settlement--A large river--Gigantic peak--Again on marshy soil Pp. 346-348
LXX Another Tibetan encampment--Uncontrollable animals--A big stream--Washed away--In dreadful suspense--Rescuing the yak--Diving at great altitudes and its effects--How my two followers got across--A precarious outlook and a little comfort Pp. 349-351
LXXI Hungry and worn--A sense of humour--Two buckets of milk--No food to be obtained--Chanden Sing and Mansing in a wretched state--Their fidelity--Exhaustion Pp. 352-354
LXXII Eighty black tents--Starved--Kindly natives--Presents--Ando and his promises--A Friendly Lama--A low pass--My plans Pp. 355-357
LXXIII Strange noises--Ando the traitor--Purchasing provisions and ponies--A handsome pony--Decoyed away from my tent and rifles--Pounced upon--The fight--A prisoner Pp. 358-361
LXXIV Chanden Sing's plucky resistance--Mansing secured--A signal--A treacherous Lama--Confiscation of baggage--Watches, compasses and aneroids--Fear and avidity--The air-cushion--Dragged into the encampment Pp. 362-366
LXXV A warning to my men--Calm and coolness--The Pombo's tent--Chanden Sing cross-examined and flogged Pp. 367-369
LXXVI Led before the tribunal--The Pombo--Classical Tibetan beyond me--Chanden Sing lashed--The Lamas puzzled--A sudden change in the Pombo's attitude Pp. 370-373
LXXVII My note-books and maps--What the Lamas wanted me to say--My refusal--Anger and threats--Ando the traitor--Chanden Sing's heroism--A scene of cruelty--Rain Pp. 374-376
LXXVIII A high military officer--A likely friend--A soldier and not a Lama--His sympathy--Facts about the Tibetan army Pp. 377-379
LXXIX Sarcasm appreciated--Kindness--A change for the worse--The place for an Englishman--Vermin--A Tibetan prayer Pp. 380-382
LXXX The Rupun as a friend--Treated with respect and deference--Fed by the Rupun and soldiers--Improving my knowledge of Tibetan Pp. 383-385
LXXXI A bearer of bad news--Marched off to the mud-house--Mansing--Insults and humiliations--Iron handcuffs instead of ropes--The Rupun's sympathy--No more hope--In the hands of the mob Pp. 386-389
LXXXII A pitiful scene--A struggle to get to Chanden Sing--Brutally treated--A torturing saddle--Across country at a gallop--A spirited pony--Sand deposits and hills--Speculation--More horsemen coming towards us Pp. 390-392
LXXXIII At an unpleasant pace--Drawing near the cavalcade--A picturesque sight--A shot fired at me--Terrible effects of the spikes along my spine--The rope breaks--An ill omen--A second shot misses me--Arrows--The end of my terrible ride Pp. 393-397
LXXXIV Intense pain--Hustled to the execution-ground--Stretched and tied--Thirsting for blood--A parade of torturing appliances--The music--The Taram Pp. 398-401
LXXXV Bleeding all over--Insulted and spat upon--"Kill him!"--Urging on the executioner--Refusal to stoop--An unpleasant sword exercise--The execution suspended Pp. 402-405
LXXXVI Mansing arrives--A pretence of killing him--Our execution postponed--Fed by the Lamas Pp. 406-407
LXXXVII Happiness checked--Stretched on the rack--Mansing shares my fate--Drenched and in rags--An unsolved mystery Pp. 408-410
LXXXVIII Mansing partially untied after twelve hours on the rack--Numbed--How the brain works under such circumstances--My scientific instruments--The end of my photographic plates--A paint-box accused of occult powers--An offer refused--Courtesy and cruelty combined Pp. 411-412
LXXXIX An unknown article in Tibet--My sponge bewitched--A Lama fires my Martini-Henry--The rifle bursts Pp. 413-415
XC A consultation--Untied from the rack--The most terrible twenty-four hours of my life--I lose the use of my feet--Circulation returning--Intense pain--Sports Pp. 416-417
XCI A great relief--The Pombo's attentions--A weird hypnotic dance Pp. 418-420
XCII Compliments exchanged--A poisoned drink proffered--In acute pain--Uncertainty as to our fate--Working the oracle--My webbed fingers Pp. 421-423
XCIII Our lives to be spared--An unpleasant march--Chanden Sing still alive--A sleepless night--Towards the frontier--Long and painful marches--How we slept at night--A map drawn with blood Pp. 424-428
XCIV South of the outward journey--Severity of our guard--Ventriloquism and its effects--Terrible but instructive days--The Southern source of the Brahmaputra--Leaving Yutzang Pp. 429-430
XCV Easier times--Large encampments--Suffocating a goat--A Tarjum's encampment--Tokchim--Old friends--Musicians--Charity Pp. 431-434
XCVI Towards Mansarowar--Mansing's vision--Bathing in Mansarowar Pp. 435-437
XCVII Suna--Wilson and the Political Peshkar across the frontier--A messenger--Our progress stopped--Diverting us over the Lumpiya Pass--Condemned to certain death--We attack our guard--Lapsang and the Jong Pen's private secretary--A document--Nearing Kardam--Retracing our steps--Dogmar Pp. 438-444
XCVIII A Commotion--The arrival of an army--Elected General-in-chief--How we were to slaughter the Jong Pen's soldiers--My men lay down their arms--Towards Taklakot--Delaling and Sibling--Taklakot at last Pp. 445-449
XCIX Free at last--Among friends--Forgetting our past troubles--Confiscated baggage returned--A scene with Nerba--Suna's message delivered--How our release was brought about--Across the frontier--Photography at Gungi Pp. 450-456
C Civilisation once more--Paralysis--The Tinker Pass in Nepal--Kindly natives--Mr. Larkin--Government Inquiry--Back to Tibet--Final good-bye to the Forbidden Land--The return journey--Farewell to Mansing--Home again Pp. 457-470
APPENDIX Pp. 471-501
INDEX Pp. 503-508
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