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
192 GYANTSE
Amban that we should insist on negotiating at Lhasa
itself if no competent negotiator appeared in conjunction
with him at Gyantse within a month.
This was satisfactory to a certain degree, but I was
disappointed to have to be still further talking about
negotiations when we had been wantonly attacked, when
we were now actually invested, and when the Lamas
were gathering yet more forces around us. Any mention
of negotiating in such circumstances would only lead them
to believe we feared them, and it was with much re-
luctance that 1 eventually gave this message. But the
Government had to contend with many difficulties. They
were in the face of a strong opposition in the House of
Commons. There was no enthusiasm for the enterprise in
the country. We had only recently emerged from the
South African War. The Russo - Japanese W ar was
causing anxiety. And we had not yet concluded the
agreement and formed the Entente Cordiale with France.
General Macdonald was meanwhile making every
preparation in Chumbi for supporting the Mission escort
and eventually advancing to Lhasa ; and he had many
difficulties of his own to contend with, through an out-
break of cholera, and through the heavy rains causing
many breaches in the road in Sikkim. Supplies, munitions,
and transport, had to be laboriously collected, and progress
was necessarily slow. But on May 24 strong reinforce-
ments reached Gyantse, and were a most welcome addition
to our strength, enabling Colonel Brander to assume a
more active attitude. They consisted of two 10-pounder
guns of the British mountain battery, under Lieutenant
Easton, a company of native sappers and miners, 50 Sikhs,
and 20 mounted infantry.
Our little garrison was strengthened, too, by the
arrival of Captain Sheppard, Royal Engineers, who, of all
the officers I saw during the Mission, struck me as being
the most likely to rise to the very highest position in the
service. His energy, his never-failing cheerfulness, his
daring, and his general ability, were altogether exceptional.
He was the champion racquet-player in the army, and
he was already known on north-western frontier cam-
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