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--