1936 - 1937 Mission Diary
The official diary of the Gould mission to Lhasa sent by the British government. Read more about the mission diary.
Wednesday, 4th November
Ngagchen Rimpoche came to lunch. He is a genial, baldheaded, much-travelled little man with a 'goatee' beard and a twinkle in his eye. He is a great diplomatist. When he first came to see us he quibbled to such an extent that we discovered nothing-which was his intention, But today he was in a most confidential mood, and the reputation of no high official in Lhasa was proof against his caustic-but generally just'
We expect Richardson back tomorrow.
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman [see handwritten annotations in Diary by Hugh Richardson in MS. Or. Richardson 2, Bodleian Libary, Department of Oriental Collections, University of Oxford]
Page Reference: Pt VIII p.3
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