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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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NEED OF INTERCOURSE 43
commercial intercourse between British India and those
trans-Himalayan countries which were then practically
closed to us. If only the Chinese and Tibetans would
remove the embargo at present imposed upon the entry of
our trade, there were, by routes under our own control,
no serious difficulties or dangers of any kind to overcome,
and none of the risks of collision which existed else-
where.
Tibet, the Bengal Government said, was a well-
regulated country with which our Hillmen were in constant
communication. When Europeans went to the frontier
and tried to cross it, there was no display of violence or
disturbance. They were civilly turned back, with an
intimation that there were orders not to admit them. All
the inquiries of the Lieutenant-Governor led to the
belief that the Tibetans themselves had no objections to
intercourse with us. The experiences of the great botanist,
Sir Joseph Hooker, who in 1849 had travelled to the
Tibetan border, and Blanford among the recent travellers,
and of Bogle and Turner in the past, were singularly at one
upon this point. The Commandant of Khamba Jong, who
had met Mr. Blanford on the frontier in 1870, assured him
that the Tibetans had no ill-will to foreigners, and would, if
allowed, gladly receive Europeans. The fact appeared to
be, the Lieutenant-Governor said, that " the prohibition to
intercourse with Tibet is part of the Chinese policy of
exclusion imposed on the Tibetans by Chinese officials and
enforced by Chinese troops stationed in Tibet." He fully
sympathized with the Chinese desire to keep out foreigners
in China. But," he said, in Tibet there is not wealth
enough to attract many adventurers ; there is room only
for a moderate and legitimate commerce ; " and among a
people so good and well regulated as the Tibetans there
would be no such difficulties as existed in China. If the
road were opened, it would be used only by fair traders and
by responsible Government servants or travellers under
the control of Government.
In seeking to press the Chinese for admittance to
Tibet, he said, the most emphatic declaration might be
made that, having our natural and best boundary in the
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