The official diary of the Gould mission to Lhasa sent by the British government. Read more about the mission diary.
Rai Bahadur Norbhu left us today. He is going down to Calcutta to have his teeth seen to. Following the Tibetan custom we all accompanied him for the first few miles of his journey then, dismounting from our horses, we exchanged scarves with him.
Sonam Kazi will carry on this most responsible job until Norbhu's return.
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman [see handwritten annotations in Diary by Hugh Richardson in MS. Or. Richardson 2, Bodleian Libary, Department of Oriental Collections, University of Oxford]
Page Reference: Pt XIII p.2