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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
COMPOSITION OF STAFF 97
ordinarily given very little credit, had asked me to regard
him, not as Viceroy, but as an old friend and fellow-
traveller. No better initiator and supporter of such an
enterprise as a mission to Tibet could be imagined. He
had his whole heart and soul in the undertaking, and I do
not think it took long for me to put my whole heart into
it, too.
I had in previous years been despatched from Simla
on two political missions—in 1889 to explore the un-
known passes on the northern frontier of Kashmir, and
to put down the raids from Hunza, and in 1890 to the
Pamirs and Chinese Turkestan—so I had some general
idea of what to expect on the present occasion ; and as I
had also spent three months in the Legation at Peking,
besides travelling from one end to the other of the Chinese
Empire, I knew enough about the Chinese to know that
I should never be able to deal successfully with them
without the assistance of someone who had had a life-
training in the work. I therefore, in the first place, asked
for an officer of the China Consular Service to act as
adviser and interpreter. Next, as regards dealing with
the Tibetans, it was most necessary to have an officer who
could speak the Tibetan language, and it was fortunate
for the success of the mission that Government were able
to send with it first as Intelligence Officer and afterwards
as Secretary, Captain O'Connor, an artillery officer, who,
when stationed with his mountain battery at Darjiling,
had learned the Tibetan language and studied the history
and customs of the Tibetans, and who, I afterwards found,
was never so happy as when he was surrounded by
begrimed Tibetans, with whom he would spend hour after
hour in apparently futile conversation.
The services of some of the Gurkhas and of the
Pathan, Shahzad Mir, who had been with me on my
mission in 1889, I also tried to secure ; but the Gurkhas
had all left their regiment, and Shahzad Mir, who had
been employed on many a mission and reconnaissance
since, was then absent in Abyssinia.
M r. White reached Simla a day or two after my
arrival, and we at once set to work to discuss arrange-
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