risoners were firmly bound
and carefully guarded. Next day, Mr. Landor and Chanden Sing were
placed on yaks. Mansing had to walk. Thus they were taken in the
direction of Mansarowar Lake. It was only on arrival at
Mansarowar that his guards unbound Mr. Landor.

Arriving at Dogmar the party was stopped by the Jong Pen of
Taklakot, who refused to give them passage through his district.
This was a very serious affair, as it meant that the worn-out
prisoners would have to be taken by a long circuitous route
_via_ Gyanima and into India by the Lumpia Pass. This would
probably have done for them. Owing to the intervention of the
Rev. Harkua Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, _Peshkar_
Kharak Sing Pal and Pundit Gobaria, the most influential person
among the Bhutias[43] of Byans, the Jong Pen was compelled to
withdraw his prohibition and give his sanction to the prisoners
being conveyed to Taklakot.

Arriving at this place the prisoners were hospitably received by
the Rev. Harkua Wilson, who is also a medical man. He examined
their injuries and attended to them. His statement discloses the
dreadful condition he found them in. The Tibetan guards made over
some of Mr. Landor's property to him at Taklakot. It was then
found that much property had not been restored. Mr. Landor had a
list drawn up from memory of his unrestored property. This list
(a copy) was handed to the Jong Pen of Taklakot.

I append the list. The Jong Pen has been called upon to restore
the missing articles. He urges that the affair did not occur in
his district, and that he is in no way responsible for the loss
of the property.

He has, however, promised to try to recover them, alleging that
the affair has been reported to a superior authority at Gartok.
From what I could gather here, it seems probable that all the
missing property, save the money, will be restored. I tried to
see the Jong Pen, but he pleaded illness, and the inutility of a
meeting in which he had nothing new to disclose. This personage
is notorious in these parts for his implacable hatred to English
subjects.

The account of the affair as given by Mr. Savage Landor is fully
borne out by his two servants, and, moreover, the Tibetans who
took part in it did not try to hide it.

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