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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
190 GYANTSE
fighting taken place at altitudes well over the summit of
Mont Blanc. I was indeed relieved to hear of its brilliant
success, and late at night on the 7th—that is, the very day
after the fight—to welcome back Captain O'Connor, 1'1r.
Perceval Landon, and the indefatigable Captain Ottley,
with his dashing mounted infantry, already the terror of
the Tibetans. They had made a bold dash back ahead of
Colonel Brander, and on the very next morning Captain
Ottley was to show the Tibetans who were investing us
the difference which his presence made.
A party of Tibetan horsemen were seen from our post
sauntering unsuspectingly along the valley, out of reach
of our rifles, but not out of reach of our mounted infantry,
twenty of whom, under Captain Ottley, now dashed out
of our post in pursuit. The Tibetans galloped up a side
valley ; Captain Ottley galloped after them ; and now we
saw a great body of Tibetan horsemen issue from the Jong
to cut him off. I held my breath in suspense, fearing he 9
would not see the party behind in his eager pursuit of
the party in front. But Captain Ottley was not to be
so easily caught. He suddenly wheeled on to some rising
ground, dismounted his men as quick as lightning, and !i
was blazing away at both parties before they could realize g
what had happened. In a moment several Tibetans
dropped, and the remainder scuttled away as fast as they
could.
All this put fresh spirit into our men, for we had had
three days and nights of considerable strain ; and on the
day following Colonel Brander himself with his column
returned safely to camp, and arrangements were at once L
made to harry the garrison of the jong with rifle and
Maxim fire. L
We now heard full details of the Karo-la fight. It
appears that the Tibetans engaged were mostly drawn
from the districts of South-Eastern Tibet. They were
commanded by a layman and a monk official, and had
been organized by a monk State Councillor and another
high ecclesiastical official who had been stationed for some
time at Nagartse. Representatives of the three great
Lhasa monasteries were at the fight, and each monk had
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