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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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128 KHAMBA JONG
negotiations at Khamba Jong, and he said he would even
go so far as to undertake to receive in their stead any
punishment which the Lhasa Government might order
upon the delegates for daring to make this request.
He then asked me what we wanted in the coming
negotiations. I told him that I had set our requirements
forth fully in a speech I had made on my first arrival, a copy
of which I would very gladly give him. But he was well
acquainted with it, and asked me what was meant exactly
by opening a trade-mart. I explained that we wanted a
proper trade-mart, which would not be closed with a wall
behind it, as Yatung had been—a mart where Indian
traders could come and meet Tibetan traders ; a mart such
as we had in other parts of the Chinese Empire, and had
formerly had in Shigatse itself.
The Abbot himself was a charming old gentleman.
Whatever intellectual capacity he may have had was not
very apparent to the casual observer, and he corrected me
-when I inadvertently let slip some observation implying
that the earth was round, and assured me that when I had
lived longer in Tibet, and had time to study, I should find
that it was not round, but flat, and not circular, but
triangular, like the bone of a shoulder of mutton. On
the other hand, he was very sociable and genial. He
would come and have lunch and tea with us, and would
spend hours with Captain O'Connor and Mr. Bailey,
playing with gramophones, typewriters, pictures, photo-
graphs, and all the various novelties of our camp.
But the situation now began to grow worse. On
August 31 I was informed by a trustworthy person, who
had exceptional sources of information, that he was
convinced that the Tibetans would do nothing till they
were made to and a situation had arisen. They were
said to be quite sure in their own minds that they were
fully equal to us, and, far from our getting anything out
of them, they thought they would be able to force some-
thing out of us. Some 2,600 Tibetan soldiers were occu-
pying the heights and passes on a line between Phari and
Shigatse. My informant did not think, however, that they
would attack us for the present, though they might in the
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