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IBET, the mystic Land of the Grand Lama, joint God and King of many millions, is still the most impenetrable country in the world. Behind its icy barriers, reared round it by Nature herself, and almost unsurmountable, its priests guard its passes jealously against foreigners.

Few Europeans have ever entered Tibet; and none for half a century have reached the