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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
150 PEKING TO LHASA
from the Drepon to say that if he was determined
to go to Lhasa he could not stop him and would
provide " ula ". Pereira replied that he would
go. And on September 3 the Drepon • paid him
a visit, and besides a welcome present of three
tins of salmon brought with him a letter from the
Kalon at Lhasa saying that he would be glad to
see him at Lhasa. He brought also a belated
letter of June from Major Bailey giving the result
of the Derby.
" Many obstacles have blocked me ", writes
Pereira in his diary on September 3, " but I was
determined to win through at all fair costs. And
at last it looks like coming off. I would rather
have died in attempting it than have chucked it
up from funk. If the Government of India had
said ` No ', I would out of duty have chucked it.
But I gather from their refusal to help me that
they do not mind or will be glad if I get through
on my own with the consent of the Tibetans.
. . . I shall always remember that Père Schram
stood out to help me at Sining-fu. He was as
keen as myself for my success. How he will rub
his hands if he hears I have got through."
So Pereira set about his final preparations.
He enlarged the Indian map of the road from
Chamdo to Lhasa, put in a lot of new detail,
correcting the names of places and giving all the
stages in green. But Huc's places and passes he
entered in red because, though he was fairly
accurate, he exaggerated the perils ! Also he got
both Chinese and Tibetan names of the stages.
His following now consisted of his old boy Liu,
the half-caste muleteer he took on at Tangar, a
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