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
MACDONALD OCCUPIES PHARI 157
left, and their retirement was an extremely delicate opera-
tion. The Tibetan troops hovered about, and with a
17,000 feet pass to cross in December, Captain Bethune
had about as difficult a manoeuvre to perform as often falls
to the lot of a soldier. The 'Tibetans occupied our camp
in triumph, but never actually attacked, and the retire-
ment was safely effected.
Both Captain Ryder and Mr. Hayden had done excel-
lent work. The former had surveyed all the neighbour-
hood, fixing many new peaks far into Tibet ; and Mr.
Hayden, roaming over the hills, had made interesting
discoveries of fossil-bearing beds, which enabled him to
determine the age of the strata in those parts.
General Macdonald, with a flying column of 795 fight-
ing men, started on the 18th for Phari, through a piece
of country which had never before been traversed by a
European. It was reported that there was a Tibetan
force there ready to oppose us. The first march beyond
the permanent camp at the meeting of the A mo-chu and
the Rilo-chu was easy ; but the second march was over a
very bad road, ascending steeply through a narrow wooded
gorge, where a few determined men could have greatly
delayed the advance of the column. The hardships of the
march were increased by the almost total absence of fuel
at Kamparab camping-ground, which was two miles beyond
the wood limit. A certain amount of fuel had been taken
on spare mules, and this, with yak-dung in small quantities,
had to suffice. On the 20th General Macdonald reached
Phari, marching over open country, where the only obstacle
to rapid marching was the great altitude and numerous
frozen streams. The Jong (fort) he found unoccupied.
It was a strong, lofty, masonry-castellated structure, at
the junction of the road to the 'rang-la (pass), with a road
to Bhutan, up which Bogle, Turner, and Manning had
proceeded to 'Tibet so many years before.
In this Jong General Macdonald stationed two
companies of the 8th Gurkhas and one 7-pounder gun,
while the remainder of the column camped on the plain
outside. To the Tibetan and Chinese officials General
Macdonald explained that he was only safeguarding the
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