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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
OBJECTIONS TO KHAMBA JONG 117
28,275 feet, in the centre, and Everest itself, 29,002 feet,
and ninety miles distant in the far west.
On July 20 I made a formal call upon Mr. Ho and
the Tibetan delegates. Mr. Ho was not a very polished
official, and did not favourably impress me. The Tibetan
Chief Secretary, however, did, and I reported at the time
that he had an exceedingly genial, kind, accomplished
style of face." But appearance belied him, and right up
to the conclusion of the treaty, nearly fourteen months
later, he was the most inimical to us of all the Tibetans.
As this was a first interview, I did not proceed with
any business discussion, but I told the delegates that,
though I must await the orders of the Viceroy on the
letter which the Resident had addressed him, and could not,
therefore, yet commence formal negotiations, yet I would
at our next meeting state plainly in detail the view which
the Viceroy took of the situation, so that they might
know our views, and be ready when the formal negotiations
commenced to make proposals for their settlement.
Two days later they all came to return my visit, and
after the usual polite conversation I said I would now
redeem my promise, and I told the interpreter to com-
mence reading a speech which I had prepared beforehand,
and which Captain O'Connor had carefully translated into
Tibetan. But before he could commence the Tibetans
raised objections to holding negotiations at Khamba
Jong at all. The proper place, they said, was Giagong.
I told them that the place of meeting was a matter
to be decided upon, not by the negotiators, but by
the Viceroy and Amban. The Viceroy had selected
Khamba Jong because of its proximity to the portion of
frontier in dispute, and he had chosen a place on the
Tibetan rather than the Indian side of the frontier because
the last negotiations were conducted in India ; and when,
after much trouble a treaty had been concluded between
the Chinese and British Governments, the Tibetans had
repudiated it, saying they knew nothing about it. On the
present occasion, therefore, the Viceroy decided that
negotiations should take place in Tibet, and had asked
that a Tibetan official of the highest rank should take
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