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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
266 THE NEGOTIATIONS
We passed numbers of clean-shaven, bare-headed i
monks from the great monasteries round, one of which ;
alone held 8,000. They were a dirty, degraded lot, and
we all of us remarked how distinctly inferior they were to
the ordinary peasantry and townsmen we met. The
monks, as a rule, looked thoroughly lazy and sensual and
effete ; the countrymen and the petty traders in the town
were hardy, cheery people, and as we rode through the
city really paid very little attention to us.
The Resident, with his staff, received me in the usual
pagoda-shaped, Chinese official residence. He again
referred to the obstinate and insubordinate attitude
assumed by the Tibetans, and said that in Eastern Tibet
they had given the Chinese a great deal of trouble. I
expressed my opinion that the Tibetans were grossly
ungrateful, fôr they owed much to the Chinese, and cer-
tainly, after the Sikkim campaign, they would not have
come off so easily in the ensuing settlement if the Chinese
had not interceded on their behalf. It was merely on
account of the friendly feeling we entertained towards the
Chinese that the settlement we then made was so light.
Now, however, that they had repudiated the settlement
which the Amban had made on their behalf, and had
otherwise offended us, the new settlement would, of
course, be more severe, and I should be greatly obliged if
the Am ban would make them understand from the start
that the terms which I was going to demand from them
would have to be accepted.
The Amban asked me if I would give him the terms.
I replied that if he would send over one of his Secretaries
to Mr. Wilton, he would inform him of them and explain
them to him, and the Amban and I could then talk the
matter over at an early opportunity.
I then asked the Amban if he would get the Tibetans
to depute two or three representatives for the special
purpose of negotiating a settlement with me. A variety
of delegates had been sent to meet me on the way up, but
it was desirable that the same men, without change, should
continue to negotiate with me till the settlement was
arrived at. The Amban promised to arrange this. After
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