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0269 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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CAPTURE OF JONG   221

not be undertaken unless there was adequate ground for

doubting the competency of the Tibetan delegates or the

earnestness of the Tibetan Government. Moreover, some

few days' delay was necessary for General Macdonald to

P'   complete his arrangements for the advance, to collect

sufficient supplies, and to establish Gyantse as his

secondary base.

I therefore, immediately the jong was captured, asked

the Tongsa Penlop to send messengers to tell the Ta Lama

   tt Rt   and the Councillor at Nagartse that I was still ready to

negotiate, as previously announced, but that they must

   t?   come in at once, as otherwise we would proceed to Lhasa.

   Ii   But the messenger found the monastery in which they

   Ii   had been staying deserted and the delegates fled.

   i   On July 9 the Government of India telegraphed

   k   to me that they considered the advance to Lhasa in-

   k   evitable, but that if the delegates could be induced to

come in and negotiate en route I might invite them to

   1   accompany me, explaining the terms of His Majesty's

   is   Government, and warning them that any further resist-

   it   ance would involve a settlement less favourable to Tibet.

   i   By July 13 General Macdonald's preparations were all

   it   complete. He had reconnoitred the country both up and

down the valley, and found the Tibetans had fled in every

   Yi   direction. He had amassed plentiful supplies. He had set

   %   about repairing the joug, in which he was, to my infinite

   ii   regret, to leave Colonel Hogge, and the 23rd Pioneers, and

   I.,   he was ready to leave for Lhasa the next day. It was sad

   ii   that the old Pioneers, who had borne the burden and the

   s   cold of the day at Tuna all through that dreary and

   1!   anxious winter should be left behind, while other regiments

who had but just arrived from India should have the glory

of going to Lhasa, and I would willingly have had it

otherwise.

All were now eager and ready for the advance, and I

wrote to the Chinese Resident, that as neither he nor any

competent Tibetan negotiator had come to Gyantse I was

proceeding to Lhasa. I stated that my purpose was still

to negotiate, but that I must ask him to prevent the

Tibetans from further opposing my Mission, and I inti-