EXPLORING TIBET.
BRITISH MISSION'S RETURN. CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE. DELHI, December 28. The British Buddhist mission has returned from Tibet. H discovered that the inhabitants of one village do not intermarry with those of the. next village. In every village polyandry is practised, and if women outnumber men polygamy is practised. Smallpox is very prevalent. Bronchial disease is rare, but syphillis is the greatest scourge, from which a large proportion of the people are suffering. Everywhere is poverty joined with lack of enterprise. Commercially, the only products iof the country are wool and carpets, but ' the country is fascinating from the I sporting point of view.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5
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109EXPLORING TIBET. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5
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