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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
FLIGHT OF DALAI LAMA 279
Tibetan objections to the establishment of a mart at
Gyantse, for we had the right more than a century ago to
have one even at Shigatse. This right had not been
exercised for a great number of years, but at one time
Indian traders visited Shigatse regularly.
We now received certain information that the Dalai
Lama had finally fled. He had written to the National
Assembly, saying that the English were very crafty
people, and warning them to be careful in making an
agreement with them, and to bind them tight. He added
that he himself would go away and look after the interests
of the faith. His departure was not regretted by Tibetans.
The Ti Rimpoche and others came to me on the 21st
with silks to the value of Rs. 5,000, which I had imposed
it as a fine for the assault which a monk with a sword had
~9F made just outside our camp on Captains Cooke-Young
, and Kelly, dealing the former a very severe blow over the
head. After this the Ti Rimpoche, the Tongsa Penlop,
1k and the Nepalese representative proceeded to talk over
the general situation. The 'I'i Rimpoche said that he
CIF himself had no objection to our terms except in regard to
3 the indemnity, which he thought was too heavy, as Tibet
was a poor country. He pointed out the difficulty which
3 the Tibetans had found in paying up the small fine I had
F imposed on them, and asked how they could be expected
to pay the sum of Rs. 50,000 a day which I was demand-
ing. He said, of course, we thought ourselves in the right
in this quarrel, but it was difficult for him to make the
Assembly acquiesce in this view, and it might be well if
I would impress our views upon them.
I said that if only they had behaved more sensibly u~
It the beginning all this trouble would have been saved : there
l~ would have been no war, and no indemnity would have
been asked. VVe had not wished for war, and I had gone
with Captain O'Connor, without any escort, into their camp
at Guru; in January to reason quietly with the leaders there,
and ask them to report my views to Lhasa. If we had
wanted war I should never have so acted. That I did was
proof that we wished for peace. But they refused to report
my words to Lhasa, and hence this trouble. The Ti Rim-
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