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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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150 DARJILING TO CHUMBI
we took on this enterprise, it was ,justified by the result.
By April the casualties from sickness and frost-bite were
only thirty-five deaths among combatants and forty-five
among followers, which, considering the circumstances,
was wonderfully low, and we had proved for all time to
the 'Tibetans, to ourselves, and to the world, that Indian
troops could march across the Himalayas in the very
depth of winter.
As we settled down to our preparations at Daijiling,
it did indeed seem a bold task that we were under-
taking. The weather now, in November, was clear and
bright. Day after day from our headquarters at the
Rockville Hotel we could look out on that stupendous
range of snowy mountains, to view which hundreds of
people come at this season from all over the world. And
to think that we had to pierce through that mighty
barrier at the coldest season of the year in face of the
certain opposition of the 'Tibetans, and to establish our-
selves far beyond in a spot to which for half a century
no European had approached, did indeed at times appal
one. But the very risk and romance and novelty of the
task soon again inspired one with enthusiasm. It was no
ignoble little raid, as ignoble Little Englanders were
saying, that we were embarking on. It was an under-
taking with every moral justification behind it. And it
was a feat which, if successfully performed, would add
one more to the triumphs of man over Nature, and
bring added glory to the Indian army by whom it was
accomplished.
It had been originally intended that I should return to
Khamba Jong to the Mission which I had left there, and
with them march across to Kalatso, on the Gyantse line,
while General Macdonald marched up through Chumbi.
But on talking the matter over with him at Darjiling, he
thought that such a move would involve unnecessary risk,
and would be difficult to arrange for with the transport
and supplies, as the Tibetans had forcibly dispersed the
yaks which the Nepalese had sent across the frontier.
It was arranged, therefore, that the Mission, now under
the charge of Mr. Wilton, should be withdrawn from
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