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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
46 THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS
Government of Bengal, with the countenance and support
of the Imperial Government, had long ago dealt directly
with the Lhasa authorities, Chinese and Tibetan matters
might have been arranged more expeditiously and satis-
factorily. At any rate, it cannot be safely assumed that
the Central Government method is necessarily the best.
In this case, for instance, all that resulted was that
the Chinese Government, in the Chefu Convention con-
cluded three years later, undertook to protect any mission
which should be sent to Tibet—an undertaking which was
literally valueless, for when a mission was actually sent to
Tibet they were unable to afford it the slightest protec-
tion, and the Chinese representative in Lhasa confessed to
me in writing that he could not even get the Tibetans
to give him transport to enable him to meet me.
The Government of Bengal had therefore to content
themselves with improving the road inside our frontier,
and with doing what they could on our side to entice and
further trade.
But in 1885 a renewed effort was made to come to an
understanding with the Tibetans. The brilliant Secretary
of the Bengal Government, Colman Macaulay, visited the
frontier to see if any useful relationship could be established
with the Shigatse people by the route up the head of the
Sikkim Valley. The Tashi Lama, who resides at Shigatse,
had always been more friendly than the Lhasa people, and
this seemed more promising. Macaulay saw a local Tibetan
official from the other side, entered into friendly inter-
course, and found, as Bogle and Turner had found, that
apart from Chinese obstruction there was no objection on
the part of the Tibetan people themselves to enter into
friendly relationship. Macaulay was filled with en-
thusiasm. He threw his whole soul and energy into the
matter. He secured the support of the Government of
India. And, more important still, he fired the Secretary of
State for India with ardour. Never before had such enthu-
siasm for improving our relations with Tibet been shown.
And as it happened that this Secretary of State was the best
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