A TRAVELLER'S TALE.

Waikato Times, Volume 2641, Issue 2641, 15 June 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

A TRAVELLER'S TALE.

A C-HrsERK traveller has been telling of his experiences and the things he has seen iu Thibet, and his tale has been printed in London. He has beheld the cloud-piercing temples of jade, gold, and other precious materials. At Lhaesa there are four templee in which the Dalai Lama lives. In ulterior Thibet the Teshu Lama rejoices in the possession of three temples. One is a nine-storeyed pagoda, containing a statue of Buddha. These two distinguished Limas are most useful citizens, as they can tell all about the future or the past, foretell births and deaths, though that seems a rather useless occupation, and are very much believed in. The Thibetan salutes his superior by uncovering his head and stickihg out his tongue three times. The country, supposing that this travelled Chinese is truthful, is the hottest kind of a place for the wicked. When a man ia arrested his limbs are tisd together and he is thrown into a dark room, in which lie is tried. He is almost always sentenced to death. If the natives have any shooting match on hand he is tied to a pillnr and used as a target for muskets and bows. » If not, he is put into a cave where scorpions arc plentiful and stung to death by these willing executioners, or else presented to cannabal savages of one part of the country to oat him. Burial is an uncomfortable operation. The body of a dead man is put into a leather bag and hung up to dry for seven days in his own house, while the priests, whoso business must not be a very agreeable one. walk around, chanting. After that the remains are taken to some mountain peak and buried in two fashions. The flesh U out up intu slices aud given to dogs to oat. The truthful Chinese declares that they call this earth interment They then grind up the bones into pilN, which they feed to eaglee, and this is called sky interment. There in very little business for doctors, because sick men. no matter what ails them, are smeared all over with batter and put into the hot sun for better or worse.