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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
TIBETAN MERCHANTS 23
great dread of the English. It is a point which should
be specially noted by those who believe that Warren
Hastings' policy was aggressive, that Bogle, in reply to this
hint, told the merchants* that he had no power to use
such language to the Bhutanese, and that whatever he did
with the Raja nn?i.st be by peaceable and friendly means.
The Company had entered into a treaty of peace with
them, which, according to the maxim of the English
Government, would . . . remain for ever inviolate."
Tibetan merchants also came, at the Tashi Lama's
request, to see Bogle. They dealt chiefly in tea, some of
them to the extent of two or three lakhs of rupees a year—
of the then value of £20,000 to £30,000. They said the
Lama had advised them to send agents to Bengal, but they
were afraid to go into the heat of the plains. They had a
tradition that about eight hundred years ago people of
Tibet used to go to Bengal, but that eight out of ten
died before their return. Bogle told them that if they
were afraid of sending their servants thither, the Kashmiri
would supply them with what they wanted. They said
that formerly wool, broadcloth, etc., used to come through
Nepal, but since the wars in Nepal the trade had diminished.
They added that people imagined from gold being produced
in Tibet that it was extremely rich, but that this was not
the case, and if extraordinary quantities of gold were sent
to Bengal, the Emperor of China, who was Sovereign of
the country, would be displeased.
At his farewell interview Bogle said that Warren
Hastings would send letters to the Lama by his own
servants, upon which the Lama said : I wish the Governor
will not at present send an Englishman. You know what
difficulties I had about your coming into the country, and
how I had to struggle with the jealousy of the Gesub
Rimpoche (the Regent) and the people at Lhasa. Even
now they are uneasy at my having kept you so long. I
could wish, therefore, that the Governor would rather send
a Hindu. 1 am in hopes my letter to the Regent will
have a good effect in removing his jealousy, and I expect
in a year or two that the government of this country will
* Markham, p. 162.
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