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
FETTERING RESULT OF PLEDGES 203
forwards between Lhasa and St. Petersburg, and served
therefore all the purposes required of those religious rela-
tions which it was very natural should subsist between the
Dalai Lama and Russian Buddhists, it does seem hard
that the Government of India, now at the climax of all
their efforts, should have been tied down through defer-
ence to the distant Power.
It is a remarkable coincidence, in this connection, that
while the Russians were making protests and representa-
tions upon a move of ours which was not within a thousand
miles of their frontier, the Chinese Vice-Minister, when
Sir Ernest Satow informed him* that we intended to
advance to Lhasa, received the news with perfect equa-
nimity, raised no objection, and remarked that the Dalai
Lama was ignorant and pigheaded.
I reached Chumbi on June 10, and spent the next few
days in discussing details of the advance with General
Macdonald. The change from the monotony of the
investment at Gyantse and from the barrenness and high
altitude of Tibet was refreshing in the extreme. I met
old friends again : Colonel J. M. Stewart, who had years
before relieved me when I had been arrested by the
Russians on the Pamirs ; Major Beynon, who had been
Colonel Kelly's Staff Officer in the Relief of Chitral ; and
my brother-in-law, Vernon Magniac, who was to accompany
me now as private secretary, and whose companionship
was the greatest relief in the midst of a host of the usual
official worries. The drop from 13,000 feet at Gyantse to
9,000 feet in Chumbi, and the change from constant risk
to absolute security, all eased the tension on me ; and the
joy of being once more amidst luxuriant vegetation, with
gorgeous rhododendrons, dense pine forests, roses, primulas,
and all the wealth of Alpine flowery beauty, was a soften-
ing and welcome relaxation.
At Phari, on my way to Chumbi, I had met the
Tongsa Penlop, now the Maharaja of Bhutan, who had
recently come to interview General Macdonald and myself.
* Blue-book, III., p. 19.
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