CHAPTER V.

The Old Blue Town--Quarter of the Tanners--Knavery of the 109 Chinese Traders--Hotel of the Three Perfections--Spoliation of the Tartars by the Chinese--Money Changer's Office--Tartar Coiner--Purchase of two Sheep-skin Robes--Camel Market--Customs of the Cameleers--Assassination of a Grand Lama of the Blue Town--Insurrection of the Lamaseries--Negociation between the Court of Peking and that of Lha-Ssa--Domestic Lamas--Wandering Lamas--Lamas in Community--Policy of the Mantchou Dynasty with reference to the Lamaseries--Interview with a Thibetian Lama--Departure from the Blue Town