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
OBSTRUCTION OF LHASA MONKS 159
us, and we had to do everything we could, short of
fighting, to establish some prestige.
On January 4 the Mission and a flying column, under
General Macdonald's personal command, left Chumbi, and
on the 6th reached Phari. The cold was now terrible.
Piercing winds swept down the valley, and discomfort was
extreme. Near our camp was a big waterfall frozen solid.
At Phari we found that representatives of the three
great monasteries at Lhasa and a General from Lhasa
had arrived, and Major Row reported many cases in
which the inhabitants had expressed their willingness to
deal with us, but feared to do so on account of the threats
of these Lhasa functionaries. Captain O'Connor saw
these monks, whom he found to be exceedingly surly,
saying they would discuss nothing whatever until we went
back to Yatung.
A Major Li, who had been deputed by the Resident to
take Colonel Chao's place, visited me, and told me it was
impossible to get the 'Tibetans to do anything. He said
they were a most obstinate people, and at present would
pay no respect to the Chinese, as they were so fully
relying on Russian support.
Captain O'Connor reported that the whole demeanour
of these Lhasa monks, who were the men who really
guided the destinies of Tibet, was impracticable in the
extreme. They made no advance in civility, though I
instructed Captain O'Connor to be studiously polite in his
behaviour, and they adopted the high tone of demanding
our withdrawal. All I asked them was an assurance that
they would not prevent willing people from selling
supplies to us, and even this little they refused both the
Chinese and myself.
But the worst feature of the situation, as I reported at
the time, was that the local people, and even the Chinese,
thought that in advancing into Tibet we were advancing to
our destruction. They were not impressed by our troops ;
they knew how few there were ; they knew of thousands
of Tibetan troops on the far side of the pass ; and they
believed that the new Lhasa-made rifles and the new
drill would prevent the loss they had incurred in their
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