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0206 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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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.