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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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FEAR OF TIBETAN ATTACK 125
present negotiations should be conducted in Tibet, as the
former Convention which the Tibetans had repudiated was
concluded in India, and His Majesty's Government were
not prepared to allow a similar repudiation of any new
agreement. But, as winter was approaching, if the
negotiations were not completed, I might have to select
some other place in Tibet for passing the winter. In con-
clusion, the Viceroy emphasized the importance of my
position and duties, and stated that I was entitled to
expect that he should reply to my communications, and
look to him for co-operation.
A t Khamba Jong itself no progress was being made.
There was, indeed, fear at one time that we should be
attacked, and I have not much doubt that we should have
been if we had shown any slackness or unguardedness.
But Captain Bethune was an officer of much experience,
and his men were all accustomed to frontier warfare, and
every precaution was taken. Our camp was well fortified
and the country round regularly patrolled.
Two Sikkim men who had gone to Shigatse, as was
customary, were seized, however, and, we heard, had either
been tortured or killed. In spite of our representations,
the Tibetans refused to give them up, and, in retaliation,
we had to seize Tibetan herds and to remove all the
Tibetans I had so far, though at considerable risk, allowed
to remain at Giagong.
Some slight chance of a settlement appeared when, on
August 21, the head Abbot of the Tashi Lumpo monas-
tery, near Shigatse, came to make another representation
on behalf of the Tashi Lama. He was a courteous, kindly
man, and was accompanied by two monks and a lay
representative, besides the former deputy from the Tashi
Lama. The Abbot said that a Council had been held by
the Tashi Lama, and it had been decided to make another
representation to me. This representation did not, how-
ever, differ from the first, and I repeated the same argu-
ments in reply. He was especially insistent about
Giagong, and I asked him when one man had a certain
thing which another man wished to get from him, which
was the wiser course to pursue—to make friends with him,
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