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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
30 TURNER'S MISSION, 1782
to all such merchants, natives of India, as shall come
recommended by the Governor of Bengal ; to yield them
every assistance requisite for the transport of their goods ;
and to assign them a place of residence for vending their
commodities, either within the monastery at Shigatse, or,
should it be considered as more eligible, in the town itself.
He did not consider it consistent with the spirit of
Warren Hastings' instructions, he reports, to be impor-
tunate for greater privileges than those to native traders.
Such as he had obtained he hoped would suffice to open
the much-wished--for communication. W hen merchants
had learnt the way, tasted the profit and established
intercourse, the traffic might bear a tax, which, if laid
upon it in its infancy, might suppress its growth.
Turner rejoined Warren Hastings at Patna in March,
1784, and I remember seeing, among some original letters
of Warren Hastings in the Indian Foreign Office, an
enthusiastic appreciation of Turner's work, and an ex-
pression of the great pleasure the meeting afforded him ;
for Hastings was as warmly appreciative with some men
as he was coldly reserved with others.
As long as Hastings remained in India our intercourse
with 'T'ibet prospered. But soon after his departure a
contretemps occurred, and all his work was undone. In
1792 the Nepalese invaded Tibet, sacked Shigatse, and
carried off all the plunder of the monasteries. The Lamas
had to flee across the Brahmaputra and apply for protection
to the Chinese. A Chinese army was despatched to their
assistance. The Nepalese were defeated and driven back
across their own frontier, and peace was only concluded
upon the conditions of an annual tribute to the Emperor
and the full restitution of all the spoils which they
carried off.
By an unfortunate circumstance, through the first
British Envoy having arrived in Nepal just about the time
of this invasion, the Chinese commander formed the
impression that we had instigated, or at least encouraged,
the Nepalese in their attack on Tibet; and the representa-
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