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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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引用情報
156 DARJILING TO CHUMBI
They asked us not to advance, but we noticed that they
had left the gate open, so the advance-guard passed through.
Then General Macdonald and I followed, and exactly as I
passed under the gateway the local official seized my bridle
and made one last ineffectual protest.
On the other side I called together all the officials, and
sitting on a stone, with a large crowd gathered round, I
explained to them the reason for our advance. I let them
repeat their protests, for it evidently appeased the Tibetan
General to say it in public ; but it did not strike me that
he personally particularly minded our coming, and the
meeting broke up in great good - humour. Then we
adjourned to Captain Parr's house, where we had to eat
not only his lunch, but lunches sent us by the Chinese and
Tibetan officials as well, these latter themselves joining in
the meal.
This was an excellent beginning, which filled me with
great hopes of effecting a settlement peacefully ; and as
we advanced up the valley in the next few days we found
the villagers ready to bring in supplies for purchase, and
to hire out their mules and ponies, while the women and
children who had run away to the hills returned to the
villages in perfect confidence.
After we had struck off from the subsidiary Yatung
Valley into the main Chumbi Valley, through which runs
the A.mo-chu (river), the valley opened to a width of
two or three huudred yards, the road was good, there was
a considerable amount of cultivation, and grass was
plentiful ; the houses were better built, and the villages
had a more prosperous look than is generally seen in
Himalayan valleys ; and with a road right down the
Amo-chu to the plains of Bengal, which would save
crossing the .Telap-la, this seemed the obvious route by
which to approach Tibet.
General Macdonald had to halt for some days, com-
pleting his arrangements for supplies and transport, and
while we were halted we were joined by Mr. Wilton,
Captain Ryder, R.E., the Survey Officer, and Mr. Hayden,
the geologist, who had all come in from Khamba Jong.
They had had a very cold and very trying time after I
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