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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
| 20 | BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774 |
replied that he had no doubt of carrying the point, but
that it might require a year or two to do it effectually.
So we see the well-intentioned Tashi Lama held back
by the obstructive Lhasa authorities ; and this was still
more evident at Bogle's next interview, which was with
the Lhasa deputies. They came to pay him a farewell
visit, and in the innocence of his heart he made the very
simple request that they would convey a letter from him
to the Lhasa Regent. Nothing could be more natural
than such a request ; but, till recently, one might just
as well have asked a Tibetan to touch a red-hot poker as
to carry a letter from an Englishman. The deputies said
that if it contained anything to do with business they
could not carry it. I confess," says Bogle, 46 I was much
struck with this answer." Poor man, he might well be !
And I was equally struck, 130 years later, when T was
formally deputed on a mission to Tibet, with the full
consent of the Chinese suzerain, when Tibetans still refused
to take a letter from an Englishman. It was only when
we were in full march to Lhasa, and but a few miles distant,
that they at last consented to so simple a proceeding as
receiving a letter, though now they have changed so
completely round, that this year the Dalai Lama himself;
at Calcutta, appealed to the Viceroy of India to secure the
observance of the right which the Tibetans had of dealing
direct with the British."
Bogle told the Lhasa deputies that he wished to know
the grounds of the Regent's suspicions, but they replied
that much conversation was not the custom of their
country," and wished him a good journey back to Bengal.
Bogle endeavoured to get them to listen to him, as he
wished to introduce the subject of trade, but it was to no
purpose.
" This conversation gave me more concern," he records,
than any I had in Tibet." He immediately asked to see
the Tashi Lama, and told him with some warmth," as he
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