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The Marquess of Hastings had denounced the conquering career of the Marquess of Wellesley. He was selected for the very purpose of reversing his policy, so far as it could be reversed. If any person could be trusted for giving peace to India he was the man. Shortly after his arrival our connexion with the Ghoorkhas, the ruling body in Nepal, became strained.
No Englishman may even now enter Nepal or pass from Nepal into Thibet without permission from the authorities of both governments.
It probably existed there since the time of Asoka and underwent the same phases of decay and corruption as in Bengal. But whereas the last great monasteries in Bengal were shattered by the Mohammedan invasion of 1193, the secluded valley of Nepal was protected against such violence and Buddhism continued to exist there in name.
In the first place, the Guobah disputed the Nepal rajah's authority to pass me through his dominions; and besides the natural jealousy of these people when intruded upon, they have very good reasons for concealing the amount of revenue they raise from their position, and for keeping up the delusion that they alone can endure the excessive climate of these regions, or undergo the hardships and toil of the salt trade.
The Lepcha is certainly far more free from this disease than any of the tribes of E. Nepal I have mixed with, and he is both more idle and less addicted to the head-strap as a porter.
"The Himalayas, evidently," said Phil Evans; "and probably Robur is going round their base, so as to pass into India." "So much the worse," answered Uncle Prudent. "On that immense territory we shall perhaps be able to " "Unless he goes round by Burma to the east, or Nepal to the west." "Anyhow, I defy him to go through them." "Indeed!" said a voice.
By raids into British territory they came into collision with the English. After a severe struggle, carried on through two campaigns, they were defeated, and forced to give up the country they had conquered to the west of Nepal, which they had held for about twelve years.
Even from far Nepal on the borders of India come the bearers of gifts to the representative of the emperor. Ser Marco speaks of the "fine cloth and crêpes and gauzes" of Chengtu, and still to-day the merchants unroll at your feet as you sit on your verandah exquisitely soft, shimmering silks and wonderful embroideries.
They appear to have been scattered over half of Nepal and every last one was smashed almost to a pulp, as though the body had been dropped from an enormous height." A concerted gasp raced around the assemblage. Then silence again, while the pale-faced Hadley went on with his unbelievable story. "A mad story comes from the heart of the terai, in India.
The ease of his victory roused the ambition of Narayan, the leader of the Goorkhas, and by 1769 the three kings of Nepal were either slain or fugitives in India and their country had fallen under the dominion of its recently insignificant and little-considered neighbor. The Goorkhas differed essentially from the Nepalese in character. They despised commerce and disliked strangers.
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