Book contents
- Frontmatter
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE ON THE MAPS OF TIBET, NEPAL, SIKKIM, AND BHUTAN
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEORGE BOGLE
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS MANNING
- NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION OF MR. GEORGE BOGLE TO TIBET (1774)
- CHAPTER I MISSION TO TIBET
- CHAPTER II FROM KUCH BAHAR TO TASSISUDON
- CHAPTER III TASSISUDON, THE CAPITAL OF BHUTAN
- CHAPTER IV HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN
- CHAPTER V BHUTAN: NEGOTIATIONS
- CHAPTER VI SUGGESTIONS RESPECTING BHUTAN AND ASSAM
- CHAPTER VII THE JOURNEY TO TIBET
- CHAPTER VIII AT DESHERIPGAY
- CHAPTER IX RIDE FROM DESHERIPGAY TO TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER X TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER XI A VISIT TO A TIBETAN COUNTRY SEAT
- CHAPTER XII AN ACCOUNT OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XIII TRADE OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XIV NEGOTIATIONS
- CHAPTER XV CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TESHU LAMA AT TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER XVI THE EPISODE WITH THE CHAUDURI
- CHAPTER XVII RETURN FROM TIBET TO BENGAL. NEGOTIATIONS IN BHUTAN
- CHAPTER XVIII GENERAL REPORT BY MR. BOGLE ON HIS RETURN FROM TIBET
- CHAPTER XIX JOURNEY OF THE TESHU LAMA TO PEKING, AND HIS DEATH. PROJECT OF MR. BOGLE FOR MEETING THE LAMA AT PEKING
- JOURNEY OF MR. THOMAS MANNING TO LHASA (1811–12)
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER VIII - AT DESHERIPGAY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE ON THE MAPS OF TIBET, NEPAL, SIKKIM, AND BHUTAN
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEORGE BOGLE
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS MANNING
- NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION OF MR. GEORGE BOGLE TO TIBET (1774)
- CHAPTER I MISSION TO TIBET
- CHAPTER II FROM KUCH BAHAR TO TASSISUDON
- CHAPTER III TASSISUDON, THE CAPITAL OF BHUTAN
- CHAPTER IV HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN
- CHAPTER V BHUTAN: NEGOTIATIONS
- CHAPTER VI SUGGESTIONS RESPECTING BHUTAN AND ASSAM
- CHAPTER VII THE JOURNEY TO TIBET
- CHAPTER VIII AT DESHERIPGAY
- CHAPTER IX RIDE FROM DESHERIPGAY TO TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER X TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER XI A VISIT TO A TIBETAN COUNTRY SEAT
- CHAPTER XII AN ACCOUNT OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XIII TRADE OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XIV NEGOTIATIONS
- CHAPTER XV CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TESHU LAMA AT TESHU LUMBO
- CHAPTER XVI THE EPISODE WITH THE CHAUDURI
- CHAPTER XVII RETURN FROM TIBET TO BENGAL. NEGOTIATIONS IN BHUTAN
- CHAPTER XVIII GENERAL REPORT BY MR. BOGLE ON HIS RETURN FROM TIBET
- CHAPTER XIX JOURNEY OF THE TESHU LAMA TO PEKING, AND HIS DEATH. PROJECT OF MR. BOGLE FOR MEETING THE LAMA AT PEKING
- JOURNEY OF MR. THOMAS MANNING TO LHASA (1811–12)
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
On the 8th of November, 1774, we rode up to the gate of the palace, and walking into the court, went up the ladders to our apartments.
Desheripgay is situated in a narrow valley, and at the foot of an abrupt and rocky hill. The palace is small; it is only two stories high, and is surrounded on three sides by rows of small apartments with a wooden gallery running round them, which altogether form a small court, flagged with stone. All the stairs are broad ladders. The roofs are adorned with copper-gilt ornaments; and on the front of the house there are three round brass plates, emblems of Om, Han, Hoong. The Lama's apartment is at the top; it is small, and hung round with different coloured silks, views of Potalla, Teshu Lumbo, &c. About two miles from Desheripgay is the castle of Chamnamring.
Immediately after our arrival, the Lama sent us a pot of readymade tea, boiled rice, four or five sacks of flour and of rice, three or four dried sheep's carcasses, and some whisky. I had also compliments of tea from several of his officers, and many visitors whom curiosity brought to see me.
My room was small, but neatly furnished; it was immediately above the church, and I was entertained with the never-ceasing noise of “cymballines and timballines” from morning to night. But as soon as it grows dark everything is still as death, and the gates are shut about an hour after sunset.
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- Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibetand of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa, pp. 82 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1881