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
158 DARJILING TO CHUMBI
road for the advance of the Mission, and guarding against
the regrettable display of force with which the 'Tibetans
had endeavoured to intimidate the Mission at Khamba
Jong. He stayed there a couple of nights, during which
the cold was intense, the thermometer registering about
40° of frost at night. The ground was frozen so
hard that a working party of twelve men only succeeded,
after two hours' hard work, in excavating some 33 cubic
feet of earth, and as neither turf nor stones were avail-
able, it was impossible to construct any entrench-
ments.
Leaving Major Row in command of the two companies
in the Jong, General Macdonald returned with the
remainder of the force to Chumbi, which he reached on
the 23rd. And on Christmas Day we received a mostly
kindly and encouraging telegram from Lord Curzon. The
inhabitants of the Chumbi Valley were now selling us grass,
buck-wheat, turnips and potatoes, and Major Bretherton
had arranged for 400 mules to ply on a contract system
between here and the 'Testa Valley. 'Phis, though very
helpful, did not amount to very much, and we were
dependent for most of our supplies and transport from
the rear. In addition to this, the loss of the yaks was
now severely felt. So our progress was necessarily slow.
But I was very anxious, as soon as we could, to be
over the main range, in 'Tibet proper, in some position
equivalent to Khamba Jong. Just over the Tang-la (pass)
-we knew there was a small place called Tuna, and there I
wished the Mission established with a good escort and
plenty of ammunition and supplies, while all arrangements
were being completed for the further advance to Gyantse.
There was a certain amount of risk in this ; but to be
among the Tibetans proper, and to compensate for the with-
drawal from Khamba Jong, I thought it was necessary to
run it. Our prestige at this time on the Sikkim frontier
was quite astonishingly low. I had never seen it so
low elsewhere. In other places there was always that
indefinable something behind which gave one something
to work with, but on this frontier the people stood in.
much greater awe of the Lhasa Lamas than they did of
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