Note 5 — Chapter IV · RESIDENCE AT TASHILHUNPO, AND PREPARATIONS FOR JOURNEY TO LHASA.
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On the 16th I was asked by the Deba Shika to go with him the following day to see the Grand Lama dance, or cham.5 On my observing that I feared the whips of the stage guards (djim-gag-pa) if I mixed with the crowd, he promised to have seats reserved for our party.