Himalayan Times (1954)

Six

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November 28, 1954

" GAEBU ACHOOK, THE LORD OF TAMSANG"

BY K. P. TAMSANG

(Continued from previous issue)

So the two Bhutanese alive and practically most tan^se have also silently

soldiers found out Gaebu part of his cleft body had stole away trom here,

Achook, the Lepcha already joined together. know not when and where,

warrior and just out Seeing this miracle, they We must go and pursue

him severely in several became terrified and un- the enemies and bt» slain

places and threw him easy, least he would come or taken, but we will

away outside the fort in back to life and destroy have some news of him".

, tire bushes of the nettle them- so they quickly bore So they all ran after the

plants, thinking him to him still unconscious over Bhutanese, who were al.

be dead. They did this to the rampart of the ready at some distance

job so secretly that no fort and chopped off his fleeing straight for their

one knew the fact until head. It is said that the country with the good

very early hour of the head when chopped off new?. When they were

morning, before any one flew from the precipice overtaken, all the Lepcha

else was up. when one of into the river "Chel" and soldiers shouted in a cho-

the Bhutaneae soldier went his body was cut off into rous, "Aya-Ho Ho ! Aya-

out in the nearby bushes small pices and thrown Ho-Ho !!!'' and fell upon

to. answer the call of away over the cliffs to them, slaughtered them

nature. There he heard a be devoured by vultures. most cruelly, when thty

low groaning voice saying, And thus, "Gaebu Achook. learnt from th<m the

'Gaebu Achiok, join the the Lord of Tamsang ' story that their Lord has

cut Hiids together, join that immortal supporter been killed treacherously

the cut ends together". of the independence of his and unjustly and they were

He was astonished to hear country, was thus depri- over grieved to have lost

this and when went to ved of his life in the their true guidon of ho-

see what it is. he was cruel, treacherous and un- iiour, returned sorrowfully

struck dumb with wonder just manner. to the fort, where they

to see Gaebu Achook As the sunlight came talked of nothing but

speaking and the chopped in, one of the Lepcha their misfortune in losing

pirt9 of his body were soldier woke up and alar-' their good Lord,

joining together as he mad at not finding any After the murder of

spoke. He returned to where their Lord, he wake Gaebu Achook, his follow-'

his General and narrated* up all the other soldiers, era were very disheartened

the faots Immediately told them, "Oh ! Brothers; as well as frightened. The

soldiere were sent out we have lost all. The Bhutaneae came back

to fetch the body of good Lord J is dead or a again with a very fine

Gaebu Aehook inside the prisioner, for he is not army and marched into

fort secratly, without the . with us, and uptil this Kalimpong, with firm de-

shghtest knowledge of the day he hai lead us so termination not to leave

still sleeping Lepcha sol- well and got us so much the rebellious country un-

diers. R»ally, ht w«9 still honour. Even the ■ Bhu- til it was finally conquered.