From a New Book ENTERING THE ABODE OF THE GODS.

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 118, 12 February 1935, Page 7

From a New Book ENTERING THE ABODE OF THE GODS.

The Imagination lingers over those first meetings between the ruler of a secluded people, remote on the windswept roof of the world, last stronghold of antiquity, and the representative of those distant islanders whose - z restless energy had spanned the seas to disturb the East. In what direction ' would that .force turn next? Already. 15 vears ago, it bad advanced relentlessly to the Potala. Would it return, this time to remain? What was this talk of climbing the highest mountain in the world, of entering the abode of the gods? These strangers had even a map of the region and could find unaided that “Bird Country of • the South.” What possible, even conceivable object could they have? Such may have been the thoughts of the Dalai Lama as he watched the man who pleaded this strange cause, yet never once, over many years, bad done barm to Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s consent was undoubtedly a gesture of friendship to a man whom be trusted. Years of diplomatic correspondence could not have effected the removal of that barrier against the unknown. The episode is creditable no less to the re ceiver then to the giver.— Everest, 1933, by Hugh Ruttledge