ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a good deal of information about the Tibetan army from the wounded and prisoners taken at Guru, which supplemented the information previously collected by Mr. Rockhill from Chinese sources. The leaders or officers, are some Brigadier-Generals or "Lords of the Arrows", and the senior is General-in-Chief. Province of Kham the people are still fierce savages, who notoriously indulge their predatory instincts as robbers; and their braves are the most dreaded warriors of the Tibetan army. Tibet possesses a regular army of some sort, and the head of it is the senior Chinese Amban at Lhasa, with the rank and title of "Military Deputy Lieutenant-Governor. In working the poor deluded peasant soldiers up to fighting pitch, and gave each of them bullet-charms, with the promise that bullets then could do them no harm. The iron helmet of the cavalry was distinguished from that of the infantry, by a red tassel or peacock's feather on the top.
