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0343 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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RELEASE OF SIKKIMESE PRISONERS 277

by a medical officer, in the presence of Mr. White and two Tibetan officials. The medical officer reported that there

âi      were no signs on their bodies of their having been beaten,
and that they were in good condition. On receiving this

hi      report I expressed my satisfaction that the ill-treatment
had not been severe. I would not, therefore, press the matter of reparation ; but imprisonment for a year was in itself sufficiently bad treatment to British subjects who had committed no offence, and we expected that no

4~   British subjects would ever be so treated again. The

I~ Sha-pés promised to respect the subjects of His Majesty in future. They expressed their pleasure that one of the terms of the settlement had been concluded, and hoped, now a start was made, aii agreement would quickly be come to. It was, at any rate, their intention to proceed

10      as rapidly as possible in their discussions. It subsequently
transpired that the two men had been kept separately in

ôs1 dungeons, twenty-one steps below the surface of the ground,

ii. and had not seen daylight for nearly a year. But as they

Ali were in excellent health and well fed, and as we had, while at Khamba Jong, seized over 200 yaks in retaliation, I did not pursue the matter farther. The most satisfactory

of feature in this affair was the fact that the release had taken place entirely on the initiative of the Amban.

ee   I visited the Resident on the following day, and thanked

10 him for procuring the release of the two Sikkim men. He said he would denounce the Dalai Lama to the Emperor if he did not come back, and would summon the Tashi Lama, with a view to making him the head of the whole Buddhist Church in Tibet. He also said that he

!~ recognized the Ti Rimpoche, who held the seal left by the Dalai Lama, as the principal in the negotiations. This

was a decided advance, though it had taken a fortnight of my precious six , weeks to make ; and I was also able to report to Government that the general situation was certainly improving ; that supplies, which at first we had been only able to gsecure by he threat of force and by surrounding a monastery, were now coming in steadily ; and people were showing growing confidence, while even

   the National Assembly   slowly giving way, and the

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