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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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ENVOY FROM DALIA LAMA 239
Dalai Lama, but His Holiness would, I felt sure, realize
the inconvenience we had already suffered through the
delay in the arrival of negotiators. I could assure them
that the Viceroy had every desire to consult the feelings
of the Dalai Lama, and it was because we knew that His
Holiness was averse to the presence of strangers in Lhasa
that His Excellency had not sent me there in the first
instance, though the capital of a country was the natural
and usual place in which to conduct negotiations. It was
only after we had found it impossible to effect a settle-
' ment anywhere else that I had been ordered to proceed to
R Lhasa.
I added that after an Envoy had been kept waiting for
a year, and had been attacked and shot at for two months.
most rulers would have refused to allow their representa-
tive to negotiate till the capital had been captured. We
ii were not, however, advancing with that object. They
could see that here we were paying for all supplies we
!l took, and the monastery immediately outside the camp
was left unmolested. I was prepared to show like con-
ii; sideration on our arrival at Lhasa if we were unopposed,
11 and I trusted His Holiness would appreciate this con-
cession.
The delegates assured me again that the Dalai Lama
was really anxious to make a settlement, that they had
come in a peaceful manner, and had let the army they had
with them a few days ago disperse to their homes. I
had little difficulty in believing these assertions, for we had
received accounts that the Tibetan army had scattered in
a panic, the Kham levies looting in all directions. A.
peaceful settlement was undoubtedly, therefore, the sincere
desire of the Dalai Lama, though turbulent monks might
yet create a disturbance in Lhasa. As to the delegates
being punished if we advanced to Lhasa, I said that I
myself would be punished if we did not.
A discussion afterwards followed on the question of
other foreigners coming to Tibet if we were allowed there.
I told them it was the usual custom for neighbouring
countries to have representatives at each other's capital,
and we would probably have avoided all the misunder-
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