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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DEPARTURE FROM SIMLA 99
its expeditions well, and such little arrangements were
soon and readily made. And by a piece of foresight on
its part, there was on the spot in Sikkim the best practical
rough-and-ready supply and transport officer in their
service, Major Bretherton, D.S.O., a very old friend of
mine in Chitral days, a man of unbounded energy, of
infinite resource, and of quite unconquerable optimism,
who was drowned in the Brahmaputra within a few days'
march of Lhasa, when we were just about to reap the
reward which he, more than any other single man, had put
within our reach.
All headquarter arrangements having been made, and
my formal instructions received, Mr. White and I left
Simla early in June to proceed by Darjiling to the
Sikkim frontier. In India such enterprises as we were
now embarking on are always started off very quietly, and
few outside a limited official circle, and possibly the
Russian Government, knew anything at all about our
mission. The Government of India is over-sensitive to
questions and criticisms in Parliament, and, dependent as
it is upon the support of public opinion in England,
would be better advised, in my opinion, to take the public
in England more into its confidence. But this sensitive-
ness is intelligible. It must by the necessity of the case be
especially difficult to govern India from England, but that
task is rendered vastly more difficult by careless questions
and criticisms of Members of Parliament. My mission
suffered much through the want of support by the British
public, and they could hardly have been expected to give
it support when it was eventually sprung so suddenly on
them, and when they had not had the opportunity of
watching affairs gradually growing to a crisis. On the
other hand, the Indian Government cannot be expected
to expose delicate affairs to the risk of rough, crude
handling from men who, though they ultimately control
these affairs, are so very little versed in their conduct.
I departed, then, from Simla in the most matter-of-fact
manner possible, telling my friends, what was perfectly
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