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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
268 THE NEGOTIATIONS
always told me he would be if we advanced to Lhasa. My
other friend the Yutok Sha-pé, who had met me at
Nagartse, had very sensibly, or perhaps naturally, gone
sick. Of the two remaining Councillors, one was useless
and the other inimical. The National Assembly sat con-
tinuously, but only criticized what anyone did, and was
afraid to do anything itself without reference to the
Dalai Lama. And the Dalai Lama, who had fled on
our approach to Lhasa and was three days distant, would
not in his turn act without sanction of the Assembly.
Everyone was in fear, not now of us, but of his next-
door neighbour : and each was working against the
other. No attempt at commencing negotiations had been
made, though I had given the Resident an outline of
our terms. The Tongsa Penlop and the Nepalese repre-
sentative constantly visited me, but expressed despair
at the silliness of the Tibetans, and said their heads ached
with arguing with them. The general attitude of the
Tibetans, though exasperating, was, I thought, probably
more futile and inept than intentionally hostile. But yet
it was not easy to see then how in my limited time I was
to get a definite treaty signed, sealed, and delivered out of
such an intangible, illusive, un-get-at-able set of human
beings as I now found in front of me.
The very next day, though, a ray of light appeared
which was in the end to show the way to a solution of our
difficulties. The Nepalese representative came to inform
me that on the previous night he went to see the Ti
Rimpoche, the Regent to whom the Dalai Lama had
handed over his seal, and had explained to him that
matters were getting serious. The Regent replied that lie
and the Dalai Lama's brother were anxious to make a
settlement, and were of opinion that the Government
terms might well be accepted with two or three modifica-
tions. The Regent thought that the amount of indemnity
I had named—Rs. 50,000 a day—was excessive. And he
would ask that if they released the two Lachung men we
should release the yaks and men whom we had seized last
year in retaliation. With those modifications he thought
the National Assembly might reasonably accept our terms.
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