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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
206 GYANTSE
with Tibet, and he' fervently assured me of the good-will
of the Bhutanese, and said that they would never depart
from their friendship with the British Government.
In this interview I purposely appeared indifferent
about receiving negotiators, for the less anxious I seemed
for them to come the more likely was their arrival. As a
fact, when, a fortnight later, there really were signs of their
appearance, I asked Government to agree, which they
readily did, to grant a few days' grace beyond the 25th to
allow them to come in.
Besides this friendly support from Bhutan on our right,
we had also further evidence at this time of equally
friendly, and much more valuable, support from Nepal on
our left. The Nepalese Minister informed Colonel Raven-
shaw that he had received a letter and some presents from
the Dalai Lama, but that he made no allusion to our
Mission, which omission led the Minister to think that
the Dalai Lama was kept in ignorance of what was going
on. And this surmise was, I think, perfectly correct, and
represented one of the great difficulties with which we
had to contend. No one dared inform this little god that
things were not going as he would like them, and yet
they had to get orders from him, for they would do nothing
without his orders.
The Nepalese Minister, to remove this difficulty, wrote
early in June to the Dalai Lama, expressing his anxiety
at " the breach of relations [between India and 'Tibet]
which had been brought about by the failure of the
Tibetan Government to have the matters in dispute settled
by friendly negotiation." He referred to the letter which
he had written to the four Councillors in the previous
autumn, and he went on.: " Wise and far-seeing as you
are, the vast resources of the British Government must be
well known to you. To rush to extremes with such a big
Power, and wantonly to bring calamities upon your poor
subjects without having strong and valid grounds of your
own to insist upon, cannot readily be accepted as a
virtuous course or wise policy. Hence it may fairly be
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