p. 9 | The Hermit Nation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 18, 1897

The Hermit Nation

The Hermit Nation seems more and more of late to be getting into public life. A recent despatch from Tokio says that two English officers—Captain Welby, of the Eighteenth Hussars, and Lieutenant Malcolm, of the Twenty-third Highlanders—who left Leh in Ladakh last April to travel through Thibet to Peking, reached the Chinese capital on the 2d of December, having been eight months en route. At starting they had a retinue of twelve Arganns, and their equipment was packed on thirty-nine mules. On arrival in Peking they had three Arganns and three mules, the men having deserted or died and the animals perished. They passed through western and northern Thibet, and met with much kindness and hospitality at the hands of the Mongolian tribes. It will not be long ere Thibet is opened to the Gospel.