N MISCELLANY

In a doolie to the base--Tibetan bearers--A retrospect--A
reverie and a reminiscence--Snow-bound at Phari--The
Bhutia as bearer--The Lepchas and their
humours--Mongolian odours--The road at last--Platitudes
in epigram--Lucknow doolie-wallahs--Their hymn of the
obvious--Meetings on the road--A motley of
races--Through a tropical forest--The Tista and
civilization 115-126

CHAPTER VIII

THE ADVANCE OF THE MISSION OPPOSED

The Tibetans responsible for hostilities--Their version of
the Hot Springs affair--Treacherous attack at
Samando--Wall-building--The Red Idol Gorge action--A
stiff climb--The enemy outflanked--Impressed
peasants--First phase of the opposition--Bad
generalship--Lack of enterprise--Erratic shooting--All
quiet at Gyantse--Enemy occupy Karo la--A booby
trap--Colonel Brander's sortie--Frontal attack
repulsed--Captain Bethune killed--Failure of flanking
movement--A critical moment--Sikhs turn the
position--Flight and pursuit--Second phase of the
opposition--Advanced tactics--Danger of being cut
off--The attack on Kangma--Desperate gallantry of the
enemy--Patriots or fanatics? 127-151

CHAPTER IX

GYANTSE (BY HENRY NEWMAN)

A happy valley--Devastated by war--Why the Jong was
evacuated--The lull before the storm--Tibetans
massing--The attack on the mission--A hot ten
minutes--Pyjamaed warriors--Wounded to the rescue--The
Gurkhas' rally--The camp bombarded--The labour of
defence work--Hadow's Maxim--Life during the
siege--Tibetans reinforced--They enfilade our
position--The taking of the 'Gurkha Post'--Terrible
carnage 152-169

CHAPTER X

GYANTSE--_continued_

Attack on the postal riders--Brilliant exploit of the
Mounted Infantry--Communications threatened--Clearing
the villages--A narrow shave--Arrival of
reinforcements--The storming of
Palla--House-fighting--Capture of the post--A fantastic
display--Night attacks--Seven miles of front--Advance
of the relief column--The Tibetans cornered--Naini
monastery taken--Capture of Tsaden--Our losses--The
armistice--Tibetans refuse to surrender the Jong--A
bristling fortress--The attack at dawn--The