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
232 THE ADVANCE TO LHASA
I endeavoured throughout the interview to avoid being
drawn into petty wrangling. Even more important than
the securing of a paper convention, which might or might
not, be of value, was, I stated to Government at the time,
the placing of our personal relations with the officials of
Tibet upon a good footing from the start. I had to be
severe with them at Gyantse, because they would not pay
proper respect to me ; but at each interview since they had
come well before the appointed time, they were thoroughly
respectful throughout, and I was able to treat them with
the politeness I preferred to show them when they made
this possible. I trusted that, after I had suffered two
interviews, one of three and a quarter hours and another
of three and a half hours, they would feel that I was at any
rate accessible, and that they would have no compunction
in coming to see me whenever they felt inclined. Until,
however, they received further orders from Lhasa, there
was nothing more to be said on either side.
We had halted a day at Nagartse to . collect supplies,
of which we were short, and some question arose whether,
as we had the negotiators here, it would not be better to
stop and negotiate. By being too uncompromising we
might be simply stiffening them up to renewed fighting,
and in the desolate country in which we found ourselves,
with practically no supplies and with a lofty pass behind
us, we might find ourselves in a very awkward predica-
ment. All this had certainly to be taken into considera-
tion. Still, we should be sure to find supplies in the Lhasa
Valley, unless the 'Tibetans resorted to the extreme course
of destroying or carrying off all their foodstuffs ; and as the
Tibetans were now evidently on the run, I never had any
real doubt that we should keep them on the run, and
follow them clean through, right up to Lhasa.
On the 21st we found that the delegates had decamped
in the night. Perhaps, after all, I had made a mistake,
and allowed these very coy birds to escape just as they
had come into my hand. On the whole I thought not.
I believed others would soon come in. So I marched very
contentedly along the shores of one of the most beautiful
lakes I have ever seen—the Yamdok Tso. It was 14,350
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