THE EARLY TIBETAN MAIL SYSTEM
An Article appearing in "Two Journeys to Ta-tsien-Iu on the Eastern Borders of Tibet", by A. E. Pratt. aapearing in GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 1891, pp . 329-43.
"The mail system is decidedly curious. Official despatches are carried from Lhasa to Pekin by a mounted courier who rides day and night; he is tied onto his horse at starting, and at each station he reaches he is untied, lifted off, given a raw egg, and then mounted on another horse which is ready waiting for him. The two soldiers who accompany him are changed at every station. Many of these couriers die on the road."
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