IIIFカラー高解像度
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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引用情報
CHAPTER XX
THE RETURN
LORD CROMER, when I saw him at Cairo on my way
home, made a remark which showed an unusually appre-
ciative insight into situations such as we were in at Lhasa.
He said that everyone was praising us for reaching Lhasa,
but he thought most Englishman could do that. What
he considered really praiseworthy was our getting back
again. In such situations ragged ends are often left,
resentments incurred, entanglements formed, which make
it difficult to retire with grace or even to retire at all.
We were happy in this case to be able to return to India
on better terms with the Tibetans than we had ever been
before.
On September 22 I exchanged farewell visits with the
Chinese Resident. In the reserved Chinese way he was
cordial enough, and we had always got on well together.
But he was in a very nasty position between the Tibetans
on the one hand and his own Government on the other,
and he was subsequently degraded and put into chains for
having, it was locally reported, been too favourable to us.
The Members of the Council also visited me, bringing
presents, for the third time, and assuring me of their
friendly sentiments. They begged me never again to
entertain suspicion regarding them, and to believe that
they fully intended to carry out the Treaty.
Before leaving on the following morning, the Ti Rim-
poche visited me, and presented each of us with an image of
Buddha. He had also visited General Macdonald and
given him a similar image. He was full of kindliness, and
at that moment more nearly approached Kipling's Lama in
Kim " than any other 'T'ibetan I met. We were given to
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