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
TRIALS FROM COLD
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Two more messengers arrived on the 10th, asking me
to fix a date for withdrawal, and threatening trouble if I
remained. These threats and rumours of attacks, and
reports of the monks having set apart five days to curse
us solemnly, continued for the following weeks, and caused
us to keep well on the lookout : double sentries were
posted at night, and, on account of the cold, relieved every
Dour. It was wearisome and anxious work, but we felt
quite confident of ourselves, and in the end no attack was
made.
General Macdonald and the main body were also
having a perhaps equally trying time. Communications
had to be kept up across two high passes right through
the winter ; a flying column had to be ready to proceed at
any moment to our assistance at Tuna ; and supplies and
transport had to be collected for our advance as soon as
possible to Gyantse. On the Tang-la there was never any
great depth of snow, and what snow fell soon cleared away ;
but 'there were terrible winds, and the convoys sometimes
crossed in blinding, icy blizzards. In February General
Macdonald himself came over with one of these convoys
for a short inspection. On the passes into Sikkim there
was much more snow, and they were occasionally closed
after an unusually heavy storm. Still, fairly continuously
the transport corps plied across them, and supplies accumu-
lated in Chumbi.
All this time we had been in considerable anxiety in
regard to Bhutan. During our advance through Chumbi
we had Bhutan on our right flank. The Bhutanese were
of the same religion as the Tibetans, and closely connected
with them. It was possible, therefore, that they might
take the Tibetan side, and it was of the highest importance
that we should secure at least their neutrality. Mr.
Marindin, the Commissioner of Darjiling, had written to
ask them to send someone to discuss matters with him ;
but the answer, which was received as we were passing
through Chumbi, was not wholly . satisfactory, so I sent
another message, with the result that an official of some
standing, the Trimpuk Jongpen, arrived at Phari, and was
brought on by Mr. Walsh to see me at Tuna.
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