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Title: To Lhassa at Last

Author: Powell Millington

Release Date: June 9, 2010 [EBook #32752]

Language: English

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TO LHASSA AT LAST

[Illustration: LHASSA. From a photograph.

_By permission, from "Black & White"_]

TO LHASSA AT LAST

BY

POWELL MILLINGTON

AUTHOR OF

'IN CANTONMENTS' 'IN AND BEYOND CANTONMENTS'
ETC.

Far hence, in Asia,
On the smooth convent roofs,
On the gold terraces
Of holy Lassa,
Bright shines the sun.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

WITH A FRONTISPIECE

_SECOND EDITION_

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1905

[_All rights reserved_]

TO
CAPTAIN S. H. SHEPPARD, D.S.O.
R.E.
A COMRADE IN TIBET AND ELSEWHERE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY
THE AUTHOR

_November 1904_

PREFACE

When the Sikkim-Tibet Mission Force marched to Lhassa, it carried along
with it, besides fighting men and diplomatists, a strong contingent that
represented literature and the deeper sciences. We were full of brains
in that Lhassa column. There were men in it who had made the subject of
Tibe