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Citation Information
94 A MISSION SANCTIONED
in the proceedings, when it first became amply clear that
our treaty was valueless ; that the Tibetans repudiated and
ignored it, and that the Chinese were unable to have it
observed, we had at once resumed the proceedings where
we had left them when we drove the Tibetans across
our border, and had again advanced into the Chumbi
Valley, and stopped there till we had effected a properly
recognized and lasting settlement. This was the course
recommended by Sir Charles Elliott, the then Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal, and whether that would have been a
wise course or not, I do not see how anyone who has care-
fully considered the whole course of transactions which at
last led up to the despatch of a mission to the first
inhabited place across the border can deny that such a
course was justified.
Whether the mission was conducted with -due con-
sideration or with unnecessary harshness, and whether
any good came of it, either to ourselves or to the
Tibetans or to anyone else, are matters for separate
review, and to that purpose I will now address myself in
the following narrative of the course of the mission.
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