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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
120 KHAMBA JONG
signed by the Resident and the Viceroy on the ground
that it had not been signed by one of themselves.
When the Queen's Great Secretary heard of the way
they had set at naught the treaty which the Amban and
the Viceroy had signed, he was exceedingly angry, and
ordered Mr. White to go to Giagong to remove the
Tibetans who had presumed to cross the frontier which
the Amban and Viceroy had fixed. Mr. White had gone
there and removed the Tibetans, and thrown down their
guard-house, and reported to the Viceroy what he had
done.
Now the Amban, when he heard what Mr. White had
done, wrote to the Viceroy that, if there was any matter
which needed discussion, he would send a Chinese officer
and a representative of the Dalai Lama to settle it with a
British officer. And the Viceroy had written in reply
that he had sent a high officer with Mr. White to
Kharnba Jong to settle everything about the frontier and
about trade ; but as the 'Tibetans had broken the old treaty
because they said they had known nothing about it, His
Excellency had written to the Amban that there must be
at the negotiations a Tibetan official of the highest rank,
whose authority to bind his Government must be un-
questioned. Mr. White and I had accordingly come, and
as soon as I heard from the Viceroy that he was satisfied
on this last point I was ready to commence negotiations.
The Viceroy, I could assure them, had no intention
whatever of annexing their country, and it was possible,
indeed, that he might make concessions in regard to the
lands near Giagong, if in the coming negotiations they
showed themselves reasonable in regard to trade. But I
warned them that, after the way in which they had broken
and repudiated the old treaty, concluded in their interests
by the Amban at the close of a war in which they were
defeated, they must expect that he would demand from
them some assurance that they would faithfully observe
any new settlement which might be made.
" You come and travel and trade in India just as you
please," I said. You go where you like, and stay there
as long as you like. But if any one from India wishes to
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