ABSTRACT
IN the meantime I was concerned with a much more important matter. Our host had not deigned even to come out and look at us! He remained in his inner room, but the small pet dog he possessed, attracted by the smell of food, came out to inspect us, and immediately began to cause trouble. The sense of smell must have told him that I was different from the others, for he started barking very vigorously at me, and at me alone. We tried desperately to silence him, but without avail. His yapping began to attract attention, and I feared that in this way I should be discovered. It seemed very curious that I should be in Tibet all this time, undergoing frequent examinations, and never be discovered, and here on our first night in Lhasa to be suspected, and by a pet dog!
