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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 APP
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