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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
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ADVANCE 151
Khamba Jong ; but both Mr. White and I were anxious
that no retirement should take place from one direction
till we were actually advancing in another, for any
symptom of withdrawal before such people as the 'T'ibetans
is apt to be misconstrued into fear, and to encourage
them into hostile action. So it was arranged that until
we advanced into Chumbi the Mission would remain at
Khamba Jong, and then retire into Sikkim and join
General Macdonald and myself in Chumbi.
General Macdonald, his Chief Staff Officer, Major
Iggulden, who was well acquainted with the frontier,
having served in the little Sikkim campaign of 1888,
Major Bretherton, and Captain O'Connor now had their
hands full with the arrangements for the advance, and, as
always happens, every additional unnecessary difficulty
arose. For advance into Tibet in mid -winter, animals like
yaks, which hate being below 12,000 feet, and are stifled
with the heat if the thermometer rises above the freezing-
point, were, of all others, the most suitable, and the
Nepalese Government, with great trouble had collected
several thousand and despatched them to Sikkim. But
just as they arrived some kind of disease broke out among
them, and all, except a very few, which had to be secluded,
died. It was a terrible blow, but Major Bretherton, with his
unfailing cheery resourcefulness, set about getting the
transport he knew and had worked so well on the
Kashmir frontier -- Kashmir ponies, Balti and Poonch
coolies. Sir Edmond Elles, the Military Member of
Council, was near by in Calcutta at the time, and with
his unrivalled experience in organizing such expeditions,
was able to direct the whole scheme of arrangement to its
greatest possible advantage. He would not, indeed, at
this stage spare those magnificently organized mule corps
which he treasured up in the event of greater need else-
where, and which he only eventually sent when operations
in Tibet assumed a greater importance. But in every
other way he gave General Macdonald support in these
most difficult transport and supply arrangements, and
with great rapidity bullocks, ponies, and coolies, arrived in
the 1 eesta Valley. And sheepskins, blankets, woollen
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