TRAVEL IN TIBET.
REPORT OF MISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright DELHI, Dec. 27. The British Buddhist Mission has returned from Tibet and report that they discovered the inhabitants of a village do not' intermarry with those of the next. In every village polyandry is practised and if the wpmen outnumber the men polygamy is practised. Smallpox is very prevalent-. Bronchial disease is scarce but syphillis is the greatest scourge, from which a large proportion of the people are suffering. Everywhere is poverty and lack of enterprise. Commercially there is nothing but wool and carpets, but the country is fascinating for sporting and geographical discoveries.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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103TRAVEL IN TIBET. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1922, Page 6
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