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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164 TUNA
village. About 600 soldiers were huddled up in the
cattle-yards of the houses. They were only armed with
spears and matchlocks, and had no breech-loaders. As
we rode through the village they all crowded out to look
at us, and not with any scowls, but laughing to each other,
as if we were an excellent entertainment. They were not
very different in appearance from the ordinary Bhutia
dandy-bearers of Darjiling or the yak-drivers we had with
us in camp.
We asked for the General, and on reaching the
principal house I was received at the head of the stairs by
a polite, well-dressed, and well-mannered man, who was
the Tibetan leader, and who was most cordial in his greet-
ing. Other Generals stood behind him, and smiled and
shook hands also. I was then conducted into a room in
which the three Lhasa monks were seated, and here the
difference was at once observable. They made no attempt
to rise, and only made a barely civil salutation from their
cushions. One object of my visit had already been
attained : I could from this in itself see how the land lay,
and where the real obstruction came from..
The Lhasa General and the Shigatse Generals—we
had become accustomed to calling them Generals, though
the English reader must not imagine they at all resembled
Napoleon—took their seats on cushions at the head of the
room and opposite to the monks. We were given three
cushions on the right, and two Shigatse Generals and
another Shigatse representative had seats on the left.
'l'ea was served, and the Lhasa General, as the spokes-
man of the assembly, asked after my health.
After I had made the usual polite replies and inquiries
after their own welfare, I said. I had not come to them
now on a formal visit as British Commissioner, or with
any idea of officially discussing the various points of differ-
ence between us ; but I was anxious to see them and
know them, and to have an opportunity of freely discuss-
ing the general situation in a friendly, informal manner.
So I had ridden over, without ceremony and without
escort, to talk , matters over, and see if there was no means
of arriving at a settlement by peaceful means. I said that
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