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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
FEEBLE CHINESE INFLUENCE 63
by building a wall across the valley on the farther side of
Yatung, by efficiently guarding this and by prohibiting
their traders from passing through. Mr. Korb, a wool
merchant from Bengal, had come to Yatung to purchase
wool from some of his correspondents on the Tibetan side,
who had invited him thither ; but the 'Tibetans prevented
his correspondents from coming to do business with him.
Tibetan merchants were similarly prevented from seeing
Mr. Nolan.
Mr. Nolan's conclusion was that, even though the duty
which was collected at Phari was neither special nor newly
imposed, yet exaction was inconsistent with the treaty
provision that trade with India should be exempt from
taxation ; and also that the first clause in the Trade
Regulations, providing that a trade-mart shall be
established at Yatung," which " shall be open to all
British subjects for the purposes of trade," had not been
carried into effect.
The failure to carry out the treaty he attributed
entirely to the Tibetans. He was quite satisfied that the
Chinese officials in Tibet, whatever might have been their
prepossessions in favour of the policy of seclusion, then
sincerely desired to see the Convention carried out, being
afraid that they would be disgraced by their own Govern-
ment if it were not. The Tibetans were the real as well
as the ostensible opponents. And Mr. Nolan believed
their true motives in opposing the treaty were correctly
expressed by a monk, who said that if the English entered
Tibet, his bowl would be broken, meaning that the
influence of his Order would be destroyed, and its wealth,
typified by the collection of food made from door to door
in bowls, would be lost. And this opposition on the part
of the Lamas the Chinese had not the means of overcoming.
They certainly had an acknowledged social superiority, and
they were feared to a certain extent on account of their
power to send an army through the Himalayas, as they
had done on several occasions with surprising success. On
the other hand, their present forces in Tibet were ridicu-
lously small, and from Yatung to Gyantse they only had
140 soldiers, and at Lhasa - only a few hundreds, while
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