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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
CHAPTER IX
SIMLA TO KHAMBA JONG
THE previous chapters have been necessarily, though
perhaps somewhat tediously, filled up with a narrative of
the many intricate considerations which went towards
the final determination to send a mission to 'Tibet.
But of all that had been going on—of the voluminous
correspondence in the great offices, of the meetings
and attempts at meetings on the frontier—I was wholly
ignorant. Anglo-Indian papers seldom, contain informa-
tion on such happenings. And for some years past,
in accordance with the well-intentioned, but, as it has
since turned out, thoroughly unsound, advice of a previous
Viceroy, that it would be to my advantage in the Political
Department not to remain for ever on the frontier, but
to acquire experience of internal affairs as well, I had
been serving in the interior in political agencies in
Rajputana and Central India, and had heard nothing of
any intention to send a mission to Tibet. Nor had I ever
had any connection with Tibet, though as long ago as
1888 the then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal had, I dis-
covered many years after, asked the Government of India
for my services, as I had then just returned from a journey
around Manchuria and across Central Asia, from Peking to
Kashmir, and it was thought that, knowing Chinese
customs, I might be of use, in addition to the Chinese
interpreter. This request was twice made, it appears ;
but I was then a young subaltern, still in military employ,
and in the throes of examination, and the Government of
India replied that I was not available, as I was about to
go up for examination, and, if sent away then, would fail
to qualify for promotion. So I went up for one of those
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