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4S8 ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
that; he would willingly give me a writing, and more than
that he would at once send a courier to Lassa ; and if we
would just keep quiet until the message returned, he would
take what steps were necessary."
It would indeed have been an easy matter to have
A Chorten.
brushed this man’s opposition aside, for we had four
repeating rifles, two of them firing explosive bullets,
whereas the Tibetans were only armed with heavy, clumsy,
primitive muzzle-loaders. We had only to put ourselves
under cover, and we could shoot them down, one by one,
before ever they got within range ; but it would have been
cowardly and shameful to have used our advantage for
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