IIIFカラー高解像度
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
ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUTURE 137
British dominions, and that the Sovereign of such a. vast
Empire should entertain designs of unjustly arid im-
properly taking the Tibetan mountainous country should
never cross their minds. So wrote the Nepalese Minister
to the Lhasa Council.
Another month passed, and there was still no improve-
ment in the situation. On the contrary, continued
rumours arrived that the Tibetans were massing troops,
and that at Lhasa they were quite prepared to go to war.
The old Shigatse Abbot was very friendly, but quite
ineffectual in bringing about negotiations. One day he
lunched with us, and assured us that he had made a
divination that Yatung was the place where negotiations
would be carried on quickest. I said that what we
wanted to find was a place where the negotiations could
be carried on, not quickest, but best ; and I asked him to
consult his beads again, and see if Shigatse would not be
suitable in that respect. He laughed, and replied that the
divination had to be made in front of an altar, to the
accompaniment of music. Captain O'Connor had suc-
ceeded in making the Abbot and his people so friendly
that Mr. Wilton heard from Chinese sources that the
Chinese believed that we had either bought over the
Abbot or promised him some considerable concession—
neither of which was, of course, the case. Still, all this
friendliness of the Shigatse men amounted to very little
practical use as long as the Lhasa people were still
obstinate. So on October 7 I telegraphed to Government
that I was strengthening my escort by 100 men from the
support, and on the following day telegraphed them a
résumé of the whole situation.
I said that the Viceroy's despatch had reached the
Resident one month previously, and no reply had yet been
received, though letters from Lhasa could reach Khamba
Jong in four days. The Mission had been there for three
months without being able to even commence negotiations.
The Chinese showed indifférence and incompetence, and
the Tibetans pure obstruction. The present Resident was
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