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0120 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / 120 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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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.