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The Indian Government will apparently be compelled to advance towards

Lhasa, for the Lamas refuse to negotiate, and are accumulating a force between the expedition and themselves. The Bhutanese, who have proved unexpectedly faithful, have given permission to Indian engineers to make a shorter and easier road through their hills, but the work cannot be finished in time to facilitate the present enterprise, which is hampered by great difficulties of transport. The men do not appear to have suffered, but of the four thousand yaks collected at great expense, scarcely six hundred are fit for service. The cold, and probably some change of diet, have killed the remainder.

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