position by the hair of his head, a hot iron
was passed in front of his eyes and a matchlock laid on his
forehead and fired. Lastly, the head Lama approached with a long
sword and swung it right and left close to Mr. Landor's neck, as
if about to cut off the head. Mr. Landor remained composed and
spoke no words. After some twenty minutes Mansing arrived, and
was tied to the same log in front of Mr. Landor, and pretence was
made to behead Mansing, Mr. Landor's face having been covered
with a cloth. The Lamas professed to have been very astonished
when, after having tied the prisoners' hands high up to poles
behind them, Mr. Landor asked for some _tzamba_ (oatmeal), meat
and rice, and Mansing for some butter.

The amazement of the Tibetans appears to have been even greater
when food was brought and Mr. Landor and Mansing partook heartily
of it and asked for more. Mr. Landor was kept chained to the log
for twenty-four hours, Mansing twelve hours. When they were
brought back to Toxem they found that Chanden Sing had been kept
four days tied hands and feet to an upright post, and he had been
given no food.

At Taklakot, an officer (called Nerba) confessed in my own tent,
and before Pundit Gobaria and the Political Peshkar Kharak Sing,
that he himself had held Mr. Landor by the hair when he was
about to be beheaded. He had also fired a shot at Mr. Landor,
and had moreover been ordered by the Lamas to cut off Mr.
Landor's toe and finger nails, as well as a lock of his hair. The
Taklakot Lamas and the Tokchim Tarjum professed to be sorry at
the Galshio Lamas having behaved in such a cruel manner.

At Taklakot we made a list of Mr. Landor's property that was
still missing, and we gave a copy to the Jong Pen and one to the
Tokchim Tarjum, that they may try to recover what they can.

(Signed) HARKUA WILSON,
_Methodist Episcopal Mission._

GUNGI BYAS BHOT, DARMA. _Sept._ 21, 1897.

DR. H. WILSON'S _Certificate of_ A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR'S _injuries and
wounds_

TAKLAKOT, TIBET, _Sept._ 8, 1897.

I herewith certify that I have examined the wounds that Mr. A.
Henry Savage Landor received during his imprisonment at Galshio
in Tibet.

There are _five_ large sores along the spinal colum