Captain Montgomerie, R.E., a clever officer, chiefly employed n the
Cashmere frontier, has employed a native pundit in explo- rations in Thibet, which have been very successful. The pundit travelled in disguise with instruments about him, and settled routes and altitudes most satisfactorily. We, however, are most interested in his statement that the Grand Lamaahip will expire in
this generation, the present Greed, Lama, a boy, being the thir- teenth, after which there are to be no more transmigrations. It is a carious fact that all the four Lamaships, or sovereignties held by-a religious tenure, now existing in the world are in trouble of one kind or another. The Khalif is staving off bank- ruptcy by-loans from week to week, the Pope is hemmed in by secular enemies, the Mikado is under arrest by his nobles, and the Grand Lama is the last of his race. The reverence for that kind of thing, i.e., for the visible representation on earth of the Supreme government, seems to be dying out everywhere.
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