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Updated: October 2, 2025
'Is there any priest in the Kingdom to whom he will listen? said I, for a light was beginning to break upon me. 'He worships his own God, said the Prime Minister. 'We can starve him out. 'Let the white man approach, said Namgay Doola from within. 'All others I will kill. Send me the white man. The door was thrown open and I entered the smoky interior of a Thibetan hut crammed with children.
Hundreds of dressed deodar-logs had caught on a snag of rock, and the river was bringing down more logs every minute to complete the blockade. The water snarled and wrenched and worried at the timber, and the population of the state began prodding the nearest logs with a pole in the hope of starting a general movement. Then there went up a shout of 'Namgay Doola!
I saw him decide equitably in weighty matters of trespass, slander, and a little wife-stealing. Then his brow clouded and he summoned me. 'Again it is Namgay Doola, he said despairingly. 'Not content with refusing revenue on his own part, he has bound half his village by an oath to the like treason. Never before has such a thing befallen me! Nor are my taxes heavy.
The Thibetan woman, his wife, touched him on the arm gently. The long parley outside the fort had lasted far into the day. It was now close upon twilight the hour of the Angelus. Very solemnly, the red-headed brats rose from the floor and formed a semicircle. Namgay Doola laid his gun against the wall, lighted a little oil lamp, and set it before a recess in the wall.
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