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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
96 SIMLA TO KHAI\IBA JONG
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examinations of which such a fetish is made, and never
till now had been near the Tibet frontier. I made, indeed,
an abortive effort in 1889 to go to Lhasa, disguised as a
'l'urki from Central Asia ; but this, too, was nipped in the
bud by the refusal of my Colonel to give me leave from
the regiment. What spirit of adventure I possessed
never received much encouragement from Government,
and, as I have said, I had left the frontier for some years,
and was superintending the affairs of a native State in
the very heart of India, when, on a sweltering day in
May, I suddenly received a summons to proceed at once
to Simla to receive instructions regarding a mission I was
to lead to Tibet.
Here, indeed, I felt was the chance of my life. I was
once more alive. The thrill of adventure again ran through
my veins. And I wasted little time in rounding up my
business, packing my things, and starting off for Simla.
There I was handed over all the papers in the
Foreign Office to digest while the final instructions of the
Secretary of State were still awaited. And one afternoon
I was asked to lunch with Lord Curzon and Lord
Kitchener, at a gymkhana down at Annandale, where,
after lunch, sitting under the shade of the glorious pine-
trees, Lord Curzon explained to me all his intentions,
ideas, and difficulties. Men and ladies performed every
feat of equestrian skill and equestrian nonsense, and the
place was crowded with all the beauty and gaiety of Simla
in the height of the season. But the Viceroy and I sat
apart, and talked over the various difficulties I should meet
with in Tibet, and the best means by which they could be
overcome.
One thing he made perfectly clear to me from the
start—that he meant to see the thing through ; that he
intended the mission to be a success, and would provide
me with every means within his power to make it so.
Fortunately, we knew each other well—ever since his first
appointment as Under-Secretary of State for India. We
had travelled together nine years previously round Chitral
and Gilgit ; we had corresponded for years ; and when he
came to India he, with a kindness of heart for which he is
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