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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
OBSTRUCTION FROM LHASA 17
Bogle assured him that times were now altered, that
under the Company in Bengal—and it must be remembered
that when he was speaking our rule did not extend beyond
Bengal on that side of India—every person's property was
secure, and everyone was at liberty to follow his own
religion.
The Lama said he was informed that under the
Fringies the country was very quiet, and that he would
be ashamed if Bogle were to return with a fruitless errand.
He would therefore consult his officers and some men
from Lhasa, as well as some of the chief merchants, and
after informing them of the G overnor's desire to encourage
trade, and of the encouragement and protection which the
Company afforded to traders in Bengal, discuss the most
proper method of carrying it on and extending it."
The following day the Lama told Bogle that he had
written to Lhasa on the subject of opening a free com-
mercial communication between his country and Bengal."
But," says Bogle, although he spoke with all the zeal
in the world, I confess I did not much like the thoughts
of referring my business to Lhasa, where I was not present,
where I was unacquainted, arid where I had reason to
think the Ministers had entertained no favourable idea of
me and my commission."
Later on, at the request of the Tashi Lama, two
deputies from Lhasa came to visit Bogle. They said the
English had shown great favour to the Lama and to them
by making peace with the Bhutanese and restoring their
country. Bogle replied that the English were far from
being of that quarrelsome nature which some evil-minded
persons represented them to be, and wished not for extent
of territories. They were entrusted with the management
of Bengal, and only wished it should remain in tran-
quillity. The war with the Bhutanese was of their own
seeking. The deputies might judge whether the Company
had not cause for alarm when eight or ten thousand Bhu-
tanese, who had formerly confined themselves to their
mountains, poured into the low country, seized the Raja
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