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| Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
| 北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
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引用情報
110 PEKING TO LHASA
usual thoroughness and never gave up hope of
success.
Jye-kundo was his first objective, and his future
plans he would have to settle there : he might
go from there either to Nagchuka or to Chamdo,
and so on to Lhasa. And if both these ways of
entering Tibet were barred he might have to make
for Tachien-lu. But even that line of retreat
might be forbidden, as it was to Sorensen, and he
might after all have to retrace his steps to Tangar,
a dreary prospect when pressed for food and
money and perhaps ill. These points would have
to be decided after his arrival at Jye-kundo. To
get there he started buying mules and ponies,
though as soon as he had bought them he found
it would have been best to hire animals. By
May 3 he had bought eight ponies and fifteen
mules. The latter cost 406 taels and the ponies
(exclusive of one he had before) 180 taels.
Presents for the Tibetans he also bought five
pieces of yellow silk, enough to make a short
coat, for 23 taels, seventy-two feet of red cloth
for 14 taels, and six blue katas or scarves for
presentation on visits, and small presents, such
as coral beads and children's cheap toys.
His luggage, including his private boxes, store
boxes and presents, only came to 1600 catties,
which was only 110 catties a mule, about thirty
catties under the usual load. He also hired five
mules and two donkeys to carry beans as forage
to Ta-ho-pa, 126 miles.
Arthur B. Sorensen, a Dane in the employ of
the North Eastern Telegraph Company, arrived
at Tangar on April 26. He had tried to reach
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