CHAPTER XI

GOSSIP ON THE ROAD TO THE FRONT

A garden in the forest--A jeremiad on transport--The servant question--Jung Bir--British Bhutan--Kalimpong--'The Bhutia tat'--Father Desgodins--An adventurous career--A lost opportunity--Chinese duplicity--Phuntshog--New arms and new friends for Tibet--A mysterious Lama--Dorjieff again--The inscrutable Tibetan 195-206