Second journey into Tibet—Csoma's position as to the Asiatic Society of Bengal—Return to Sabathú

THE favourable view which the Government had taken of Csoma's intentions, and the resolution which followed, that he should be assisted with a monthly allowance of fifty rupees from the public treasury, dissipated the heavy clouds of uncertainty which hung so long over his fate. He was ready to start on his second journey into Tibet, and actually did so in June 1825.