CHAPTER XII

* * * * * As the days went by some things became familiar while many remained unapproachably strange. We learned our way about the buildings so far as they concerned ourselves; many of the lamas gave us friendly greetings and some would halt for a few words, giving me a lesson in colloquial Tibetan and laughing with huge enjoyment at my stumblings. They were for the most part a good-humored simple crowd who took their faith as they found it and did not look below the surface—the same in …