IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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98 SIMLA TO KHAMI3A JONG
ments. He had had experience on that frontier for
fourteen years, and was naturally well up in all the local
aspects of the question, and knew—what I did not-
-what dealing with 'Tibetans really meant. His accounts
of their obstinacy and obstructiveness appeared to me
exaggerated, and, with the optimism of inexperience, I
thought that we should, together with Captain O'Connor's t:
assistance, be able to soon break through it. But Mr. 0
White turned out in the end to be right, and I think
from the first he knew that we should not be able to do
anything elsewhere than in Lhasa.
Mr. White's long local experience on that frontier
made his recommendation in regard to arrangements
specially valuable. We were to have an escort of 200
men from the 32nd Pioneers, who had been for some
months in Sikkim improving the road towards the frontier,
and we wished arrangements made for them to precede
us to the vicinity of the frontier, so that we, travelling
lightly, might reach Iihamba Jong as quickly as possible,
for we were now getting well on into the summer, and
had not much time to spare for negotiation before the
winter came on.
Indian troops and officers have, fortunately, plenty of
experience in rough work of this and every other descrip-
tion. The 32nd Pioneers I had known in the Relief of
Chitral in 1895, and they had come almost straight to
Sikkim from another frontier expedition, so they could be
relied on to be thoroughly up to the duty now expected
of them. All I asked Government for, on Mr. White's
recommendation, was that, as they would be moving up
from the hot, steamy valleys of Lower Sikkim to a plateau
15,000 feet above sea-level, they should be provided with
clothing on the winter scale, with poshtins (sheepskin
coats) for sentries, and that special rations should be
issued to the men. And for ceremonial effect, which is
an item never to be lightly passed over in dealings with
Asiatics, I asked that they should take with them their
full-dress uniforms, and that twenty-five of them should
be mounted on ponies, which could be procured locally.
The Government of India always equips and organizes
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