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0212 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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172   TUNA

tanese. I wrote at the time that I was hopeful that I

from this beginning we might establish more intimate i

relations with Bhutan, for the Envoy was the first sensible I

man I had met on that frontier, and there might be t

advantage in closer intimacy between us. Everything A

turned out well afterwards. Mr. White twice visited the

country and established the best possible relations with

the people, and Bhutan is now definitely under our

protection.

This was the last attempt to negotiate before we

advanced. The old Resident at Lhasa spoke much of

coming to meet me, but never came. The new Resident,

who had been appointed specially for this work in De-

cember, 1.902, did not reach Lhasa till February the 11th,

1904, and neither he nor any proper Tibetan negotiator

appeared. And we remained patiently at 'Puna through

all February and March.

The military officers had a poor time, for they had to

be so rigorously on the watch, and Colonel Hogge had

such a bout of sleeplessness from the effect of the high

altitudes that he had to go for a fortnight's change to

Chumbi, which is only 9,000 feet above sea-level, to give

himself the chance of sleeping again, after which he was

all right. I'Te had, too, twelve cases of pneumonia among i

the sepoys, eleven of which, from the altitude, proved i

fatal. And one poor young fellow in the postal depart- .i

ment, Mr. Lewis, had to have both his feet amputated i

for frost-bite, and eventually died of the effects.

But we had much to employ us, too. Captain Ryder i

would go off surveying ; Mr. Hayden would make i

geologizing expeditions ; Captain Walton would collect

every living animal of any size and description he could

detect ; Captain O'Connor would always be surrounded

with Tibetans, of every degree of dirt ; and I would

spend my days on the mountain-sides, sheltered as much

as I could be from the wind, getting as much as I could i

of the bright warm sunshine of these southern latitudes,

and on the whole thoroughly enjoying myself, for the i

natural scenery was an unfailing pleasure.

Generally the days were clear and bright, but almost