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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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引用情報
DEPUTATION FROM TASHI LAMA 123
immense distances over the rolling plains. We would watch
the mighty monsoon clouds sweeping along the Himalayas ;
we would catch glimpses of some noble peak rising superbly
above them, and Kinchinjunga close by and Everest in
the farthest distance were a perpetual joy.
Some of us went out shooting antelopes and Ovis
anamon ; while others went botanizing or geologizing ; and
when, later on, our scientific staff was complete, I could
accompany Mr. Hayden to hunt for fossils, Captain
Walton to collect birds, and Colonel Prain, now Director
of the Botanical Gardens at Kew, to collect plants, and
thus hear from each of these specialists in turn all the
interests of their sciences, so I did not care a pin how
long these obstinate Tibetans kept us up there.
But while the Lhasa delegates would have no more to
say to us, a deputation came to see me on behalf of the
Tashi Lama, who is of equal spiritual importance with the
Dalai Lama, though of less political authority. They
said that they had been sent to represent to us that the
Tashi Lama was put to great trouble with the Lhasa
authorities by our presence at Khamba Jong ; that the
_i hasa authorities held him responsible for permitting us
to cross the frontier, and he begged me to be so kind as
to save him from the trouble by withdrawing across the
frontier or to Yatung, which was the place fixed for meet-
ings of this kind. I repeated to them all the arguments I
had used with the Lhasa delegates. They were much
more courteous, and talked over the matter in a perfectly
friendly, and even cheery, way. They said, though, that
they knew nothing about the treaty, as it was concluded
by the Amban, and not by themselves, and they could not
be responsible for observing it. I said that that was pre-
cisely the reason why we had now come to Tibet. We
wished now to make a new treaty there, where Tibetans
could take part in the negotiations, so that they would
not in future be able to say they knew nothing about it.
They laughed, and said this was a very reasonable argu-
ment, but that it was the Lhasa people, and not them-
selves, who had broken the treaty, and we ought to go to
Yatung and make the new treaty there.
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