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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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24 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
be in the Dalai Lama's hands, when I will inform the
Governor, and he may then send an Englishman to me and
to the Dalai Lama."
The Tashi Lama repeated his concern at Bogle's
departure and the satisfaction he had received in being
informed of the customs of Europe. He spoke all this,
in and with a look very different from the studied compli-
ments of Hindustan. " I never could reconcile myself,"
continues Bogle, " to taking a last leave of anybody ; and
what from the Lama's pleasant and amiable character, what
from the many favours and civilities he had shown me, I
could not help being particularly affected. He observed
it, and in order to cheer me mentioned his hopes of seeing
me again."
Of Bogle's own warm-hearted and affectionate feelings
to the people of Tibet there can be no question. On the
eve of his departure he wrote in a letter to his sister :
Farewell, ye honest and simple people ! May ye long
enjoy the happiness which is denied to more polished
nations ; and while they are engaged in the endless
pursuits of avarice and ambition, defended by your barren
mountains, may ye continue to live in peace and content-
ment, and know no wants but those of nature."
At the close of Bogle's Mission we may review its
results. He was sent by Warren Hastings to establish
relationship and intercourse of trade with the Tibetans.
How far did he succeed in carrying out that object ?
It is sufficiently clear that, as regards personal relation-
ship, he was eminently successful, and that was about as
much as he could have expected to establish at the start.
As we have already seen, 'Warren Hastings never expected
any very striking result from the first communication. He
wished to lay the f bundation for neighbourly intercourse,
and in this much he succeeded. He had had experience
enough of Asiatics in other quarters to be aware that they
are very naturally suspicious of a European Power, then by
some apparently irresistible process gradually expanding
over smaller Asiatic peoples. As the instance of the Gurkha
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