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
224 THE ADVANCE TO LHASA
immediately below the Karo-la, and there we found the
Bhutanese messenger who had carried a letter from the
Tongsa Penlop to the Yutok Sha-pé's camp had returned,
saying that some Tibetan officials would come over pre-
sently to see us. The Tibetans, however, fired at our
mounted infantry from the wall on the far side of the
pass, and no officials appeared.
This looked as if we were to have another fight.
Before we left Gyantse we had heard that the pass was
occupied by 2,000 'Tibetans, and that there were 2,000
more in support, and the mounted infantry now reported
the pass to be strongly held and fresh walls and sangars
to have been built. All the villages en route, too, had
been deserted, so we fully expected a fight.
Our camp under the pass was right in among a lofty
knot of mountains, one of which rose to a height of over
24,000 feet above sea-level. A magnificent glacier de-
scended a side valley to within 500 yards of the camp.
The whole scene was desolate in the highest degree. And
though we were on the highroad to Lhasa, the road was
nothing but the roughest little mountain pathway rubbed
out by the traffic of mules and men across it.
The afternoon and evening of the 17th were occupied
in reconnoitring the position of the Tibetans. They were
very strongly posted at a narrow gorge three miles from
our camp on the north side of the pass, and their position
was flanked by impassable snow mountains. The old
wall of Colonel Brander's time had been extended on
either hand till it touched precipices immediately under
the snow-line. Behind this lay a second barrier of
sangars. Like all the walls which the Tibetans so skil-
fully erected at such places, this was built up of heavy
stones. The position was manned, according to our latest
information, by about 1,500 Tibetans.
At 7 a.m. on the morning of the 18th, when now,
even in the height of summer, there was still a nip of
frost in the air, the advance troops marched off. The
Royal Fusiliers, under Colonel Cooper, were to attack
the centre, and on either side parties of the 8th Gurkhas
were to turn the flanks.
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