IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
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10 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
shall judge that a residence may be usefully established at
Lhasa without putting the Company to any expense, but
such as may be repaid by the advantages which may be
hereafter derived from it, you will take the earliest oppor-
tunity to advise me of it ; and if you should find it neces-
sary to come away before you receive my orders upon it,
you may leave such persons as you shall think fit to remain
as your agents till a proper resident can be appointed... .
You will draw on me for your charges, and your drafts
shall be regularly answered. To these I can fix no limita-
tion, but empower you to act according to your discretion,
knowing that I need not recommend to you a strict
frugality and economy where the good of the service on
which you are commissioned shall not require a deviation
from these rules."
Did ever an agent despatched on an important mission
receive more satisfactory instructions ? The object clearly
defined, and the fullest discretion left to him as to the
manner of carrying it out. Hastings, having selected the
fittest agent to carry out his purpose, leaves everything to
his judgment. Whatever would most effectively carry
out the main purpose, that the agent was at perfect liberty
to do, and time and money were freely at his disposal. I
want the thing done," says Warren Hastings in effect,
and all you require to get it done you shall have."
The only equally good instructions I have personally seen
issued to an agent were given by Cecil Rhodes in Rhodesia.
I travelled up to Fort Salisbury with Major Forbes, whom
Rhodes had summoned from a place two months' journey
distant to receive instructions, for he did not believe in
letters, but only in personal communication. After dinner
Rhodes questioned Forbes most minutely as to his require-
ments, as to the condition of things, as to the difficulties
which were likely to be encountered, and as to his ideas on
how those difficulties should be overcome. He said he
wanted to know now what Forbes required in order to
accomplish the object in view, because he did not wish to
see him coming back later on, saying he could have carried
it out if only he had had this, that, or the other. Let him
therefore say now whatever he required to insure success.
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