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Citation Information
168 TUNA
dictate to us, I perceived also that the lay officials were
much less unfriendly, less ignorant of our strength, and aj
more amenable to reason, and that the ordinary people
and soldiers, though perhaps liable to be worked on by the A
monks, had no innate bad feeling against us. Hereon I u
based my hopes for the security of the eventual settlement.
A few days later the Lhasa General, known as the
Lhi-ding Depon, in company with a high Shigatse official
and the General who had met me at Yatung, paid me a
visit at 'Puna. The Lhasa General announced that, like
me, he was most anxious to come to a friendly settlement,
and therefore he would ask me to withdraw to Yatung,
where discussions could then take place in the most
amicable manner. I told him I did not wish to say any-
thing disagreeable to himself personally, as he had always
been polite to me, but I would ask him to let his Govern-
ment know that the time was past for talk of this kind,
and to warn them that they must take a more serious
view of the situation ; they must realize that the British
Government were exceedingly angry at the treatment
that I, their representative, had received, and were in no
mood to be trifled with. Far from going back, or even
staying here, we were going to advance still farther into
Tibet, and I expected to be met both by the Amban and
by a Tibetan official of the highest rank, who would have
sufficient authority to negotiate a proper treaty with me
in the place of the one concluded by the Amban, which
the Tibetans repudiated. I had waited for six months for
a proper representative to be sent to meet me, but even
now none had arrived.
I heard from him later that he had communicated to
the Lhasa monks the substance of this interview, but they
had stated they could make no report of my views to the
Lhasa Government until we had retired to Yatung.
Two Captains were sent to me on February 7 with a
message that I must retire to Yatung, and I sent the
usual reply verbally by them and in writing by the hands
of my 'Tibetan Munshi. This latter communication was
returned, with the customary intimation that letters were
not received.
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