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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
196 GYANTSE
from the Government of India to proceed to Chumbi, •i
to confer with General Macdonald as to future plans.
We had to a certain degree kept open our communications.
Still, there were Tibetans all about, and it was a some- im
what unusual, and certainly risky, proceeding for the chief
of the Mission to have to ride 150 miles down the lines t~
to consult the military commander. However, I was
glad enough of the change from the monotony of our
investment at Gyantse, and at four the next morning,
while it was still dark, I rode out with an escort of forty
mounted infantry, under 1\lajor Murray, and accompanied b~
by that gallant doctor of the 8th Gurkhas, Dr. Franklin.
A71Te gave a wide berth to the Niani monastery, and arrived .
safely at Kangma, our first fortified post, forty miles
distant, where Captain Pearson, of the 23rd Pioneers, was R
in command with about 100 men. I'
All was quiet here, and the post had never so far
been attacked, owing probably to the effect of Colonel
Brander's action on the Karo-la, from which a route led I
direct to this place. I had risen at 4.30 the next morning 11
to make an early start, and was just dressed when I heard I
that peculiar jackal-like yell which the Tibetans had used II
when they made their attacks at Gyantse. I instantly y
dashed on to the roof, and there, sure enough, was a mob ii
of about 300 of them weighing down upon the post, and II
before our men were out they were right up to the walls,
hurling stones and firing at me up on the roof, which was
flat, and from which I could not for the moment find a
way down. We all, dressed or undressed, dashed up to ►
the walls, seizing the first rifles we could find, and firing
away as hard as we could. And here again the Tibetans
just lost their opportunity. As before, in a moment it was
gone, and they suffered terribly for their want of military
acumen. Sixty or seventy were killed, and the rest drew
off up the mountains.
But this was not the only body of Tibetans about.
While these were making the direct attack, two other
bodies of 400 men each had appeared, all of them Kham
men, the best fighters in Tibet. One party went up the
valley and the other down, to cut off our retreat on either
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