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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
212 THE STORMING OF GYANTSE JONG
gates at Khamba .Tong last year), and six representatives
of the three great Lhasa monasteries. As all except the
Grand Secretary were men who had not met me before,
good terms with Tibet for nearly a century and a half,
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and it was only after the Tibetans had wantonly invaded
Sikkim territory in 1886 that misunderstanding had fi
arisen ; that Mr. White had for years tried at Yatung to i'
make them observe the treaty made on their behalf by the ii
Chinese ; and that when I came to Khamba Jong, a place i
of meeting which the Viceroy had been informed was H
approved of both by the Emperor of China and the Dalai i
Lama, they still repudiated the old treaty, refused to i
negotiate a new one, or have any intercourse at all with t
us ; while after my arrival at Gyantse, when I told them I i9
was ready to negotiate, instead of sending me negotiators, fi
they sent soldiers and treacherously attacked me at night. il
I concluded by saying that the Viceroy, on hearing this, d
had directed me to write letters to the Dalai Lama and i
the Amban, announcing that if proper negotiators did not II
arrive here by June 25 we would advance to Lhasa to
compel negotiations there ; but these letters had been t
returned by the commander in the jong, no negotiators II
had arrived by the 25th, and it was only because on the i
24th the Tongsa Penlop had informed me that negotiators û
really were on the way that the British Government, in .`
their anxiety for a peaceful settlement, had been pleased t
to grant them a few days' grace. We were ready to go on
to Lhasa the next day. If they were really in earnest and 0
had power to make a settlement, I was prepared to nego-
tiate with them. If they were not empowered to make a
settlement, we would advance to Lhasa forthwith. Had t
they proper credentials ?
The Grand Secretary replied, on behalf of the Ta
Lama, that we had come by force into the country, and '
occupied Chumbi and Phari, and though the Tibetan
soldiers at Guru had strict orders not to fire on us, we
had fired on them and had killed all the high officials.
He said they did not know I was here when this camp
and were probably ignorant of our view of the situation, I
recounted it at length, showing how we had lived on very
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