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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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PLACE FOR SIGNATURE 301
in which the Dalai Lama would have received me if
he had himself been here to sign the Treaty. The
utmost respect , it was within their capacity to show I
expected should on this occasion be accorded. They
began murmuring other objections, but the Resident told
them the matter was settled, and did not admit of further
discussion.
The question of the exact room in the Palace was then
discussed, and a certain room was suggested. I told the
Resident that I would send officers that afternoon to
inspect the Palace, and satisfy themselves that the room
suggested was the most appropriate one, and I asked him
to have Chinese and Tibetan, officials deputed to accom-
pany my officers. To this he agreed. The date for the
ceremony of signing was then fixed for the next day.
The Resident said he would himself be present, though he
would be unable to agree to the Convention till he had
heard from Peking.
Messrs. White and Wilton, and Captain O'Connor,
with Majors Iggulden and Beynon from General Mac-
donald's staff, went over the Potala in the afternoon, and
reported that the hall suggested by the Tibetans was the
most suitable one in the Palace. That, therefore, was the
one we fixed on for the ceremony on the following day.
Though it was easy enough to speak decisively like this
about signing the Treaty in the Potala, I had many
qualms that night as to whether I had not perhaps at the
last moment made one false step. Since the days of the
eccentric Manning—whose name should never be forgotten
when Lhasa is mentioned—no European had been inside
this Palace, and these 20,000 turbulent monks in and
around Lhasa might flare up at the last moment, or else
commit some atrocity when we were once and completely
in their power inside the buildings. Such things have
happened before now to Political Agents in India. On
the other hand, the hall we were to go to was not a
temple, and the Dalai Lama himself, though considered a
sacred being, was also a political personage. It was not in
the temple of a god that I insisted upon signing the
Treaty ; it was in the audience-chamber of a political chief.
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