The Dangers of Lhasa

One of our cooks was heating up a tin of tinned fish, and had put it in some hot water without previously opening it. When he thought it was sufficiently hot, he started to open it with the result that it exploded violently,. covering him and everyone else in the kitchen with small pieces of fish. It was of course the rarefied air that had caused this, for Dochin is at a height of 14,700 feet above sea level. Every day on from now, the wind used to blow with great violence all the afternoon, but would die down after sunset. I sent back Dorge, one of our cooks from this place, as it was the fourth time that he