![]() ![]() The next three months were pa.s.sed mainly in this tent. More than half the population of Mongolia are lamas. A lama is a priest of the lama section of Buddists. I went to bed about ten and slept well, though my feet were cold towards morning.' After a time he went away and lodged in the next hut. He came ramping into the tent as if he would have knocked everything down. Nothing very remarkable happened except that we were invaded by a great bl.u.s.tering lama, intoxicated. I settled to remain there during the night. We talked, and I learned a great deal, when at last I broke my mind to him, and was glad to find that he received it favourably. He lives alone in his tent, having nothing to care for but the horses for the courier service, and a couple of lamas to attend to his wants, one of whom goes with the letters when they come. ![]() He motioned me to sit down, and when his devotions were finished he gave me a warm welcome. On December 13, 1870, he left Kiachta and journeyed out into Mongolia to the first cl.u.s.ter of tents, named Olau Bourga.s.s. He resolved to go out upon the Plain, and persuade some Mongol to allow him to share his tent. Very dissatisfied with his progress, and stung one day by a remark of Grant's to the effect that he did not seem to speak Mongolian readily, Gilmour changed his plans.
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