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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
INTERVIEW WITH SHIGATSE ABBOT 127
my orders were to negotiate at the former place, so their
orders were to negotiate at the latter, and they could not
agree to anything different. The Abbot, therefore, now
came to say that there were several hundred Tibetan
troops near by, but he would get those withdrawn if I
would send away my escort. He thought that then the
Lhasa Government would probably consent to negotiations
at Khamba Jong. I told him that I had not the slightest
objection to the presence of the Tibetan troops, but it
surprised me that, when they had so many hundreds near,
they should have any objection to the small number
which I myself had.
The innocent-minded Abbot then asked if I would send
away half, and he would himself remain with us as a
hostage. He explained that the Tibetans thought we had
come with no friendly intent, as we had forced our way
into the country, and a reduction of our escort would
appease them. I told the Abbot I could not acknowledge
that we had forced our way into Tibet, as I had up to
now ignored the presence of Tibetan soldiers inside the
treaty frontier, who had no business to be where they
were ; and I repeated my old arguments in regard to the
strength of my escort.
The Abbot very politely apologized for all the trouble
he was giving me by making so many requests. I told
him he might make requests to me all day long, and he
would always find me ready to listen to him and give him
what I, at any rate, considered reasonable answers. I
much regretted the inconvenience which was being caused
to the Tashi Lama, and I felt sure that if the conduct of
these negotiations rested with His Holiness and the
polite and reasonable advisers of his whom he had sent to
me, we should very soon come to a settlement.
I advised the Abbot to get the Tashi Lama to repre-
sent matters directly to Lhasa. He replied they were not
allowed to make representations against the orders of the
Lhasa Government. Nevertheless, he would again, that
very day, go to the Lhasa delegates, tell them how he had
once more tried to induce me to go back to Giagong, and
would ask them to make a request to Lhasa to open
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