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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
118 KHAMBA JONG
part in them, in order that, when the new settlement was
completed, the Tibetans should not be able to say they
knew nothing of it.
The Tibetans then raised objections to the size of my
escort. I explained that it was merely the escort which
was becoming to my rank, and was even smaller than the
escort which the Chinese Resident took to Darjiling and
Calcutta at the former negotiations. They said they had
understood that the negotiations were to be friendly, and so
they themselves had brought no armed escort. I replied
that the negotiations certainly were to be friendly, and
that if I had had any hostile intentions I should have
brought many more than 200 men, a number which was
only just sufficient to guard me against such attacks of
bad characters as had very recently been made upon the
British Ambassador at the capital of the Chinese Empire.
My speech was then read by the interpreter. It
recounted how, seventeen years before, the Viceroy
proposed a peaceful mission to Lhasa to arrange the
conditions of trade with Tibet. British subjects had the
right to trade in other parts and provinces of the Chinese
Empire, just as all subjects of the Chinese Emperor were
allowed to trade in every part of the British Empire. But
in this one single dependency of the Chinese Empire, in
Tibet, obstacles were always raised in the way of trade.
It was to discuss this matter with the Tibetan authorities
at Lhasa, and to see if these obstacles could not be removed,
that the then Viceroy of India proposed, with the consent
of the Chinese Government, to send a mission to Lhasa
in 1886. But when the mission was about to start, the
Chinese Government at the last moment informed the
Viceroy that the Tibetans were so opposed to the idea of
admitting a British mission to their country that they (the
Chinese Government) begged that the mission might be
postponed ; and out of good feeling to the Chinese
Government, and on the distinct understanding that the
Chinese would exhort the Tibetans to promote and develop
trade, the Viceroy counterordered the mission.
Seventeen years had now passed away since the
Chinese made the promise, and the British Government
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