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Night in a Mongol hostelry and a lama feast
The narrator travels with a caravan to Lhasa and spends a night in a Mongol village. He describes a grand guest house, a crowd of unwashed hosts, and a feast with arak and barley wine. Lamas discuss prayers, and the host presses him to remember his grave. The piece contrasts local medicine with superstition and outlines Buddhist influence among Mongols and Tibetans under Chinese amban authority.
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W. C. J. Reid
Great Ridge
Prejevalsky
Lan-Chau
Koulon-Gol
Gajum
China
Thibet
Hoang-Ho
Coleridge
Tankar
Kumbum
Golok
Jyekundo
Ch’amdo
L’hasa
Jama Superior
Koko Nor
Ts’aldam
Mongolia
Sung Yun
Dji Cit
Koko
Lhasa
William II
William
Hix
Therm
Dreyfus aWair
United States
America
Germany
France
England
Berlin
Leipsic
Mr. White
Yuaker