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インドとチベット : vol.1

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India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

CHAPTER XVII

THE NEGOTIATIONS

THE very day that we arrived at Lhasa I made a com-

mencement at negotiating a treaty based on the terms set

forth in the preceding chapter. I had already, before I

left Gyantse and before Government had made up their

minds as to the terms which should be asked, told the

Tongsa Penlop informally what we were likely to ask, so

that the Tibetans might have a rough idea of our demands ;

and as the Chinese Resident had intimated to me that he

would come and visit me on the afternoon of our arrival,

I thought it well to make a start with him at once.

The interview was interesting, for I had been waiting a

year to see this A mban. I had seen Chinese officials in

Peking ; I had seen them at the extreme eastern end of the

Empire in Manchuria ; I had seen them at the extreme

western end, in Chinese Turkestan ; and I now saw

them here at Lhasa. They were always exactly the same;

in their official robes, dressed precisely alike, with the

same good manners, the same dignity, the same air of

something very much akin to superiority, and with the

same evidence of solid intellectual capacity and sterling

character. The Resident, Yu-tai, was not different from

the rest. He was not, indeed, strikingly clever, and I did not

see him at his best, for the recalcitrance of the Tibetans

had put him in a most humiliating position, which he

must have felt or he would not have paid me a visit before

I had visited him. But he kept up appearances and made

a brave show with all the aplomb of his race, and I had a

real feeling of relief in talking to a man of affairs after so

many long, dreary and ineffectual interviews with the

obtuse and ignorant Tibetans.

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