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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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引用情報
328 THE RETURN
behaviour on the present occasion was one of the main
causes of the Tibetans suddenly swinging round as they
did in our favour.
With the relays of riding animals and transport which
General Macdonald had arranged for us at every stage
down the long line of communications we now pressed
rapidly on. We did not strive to emulate Mn Perceval
Landon, who had a week or two before made the record
ride from Lhasa to India, but we doubled or trebled the
ordinary marches, and in a few days reached Gyantse
again.
Here a redistribution had to be made. Captain
O'Connor, to whom so much of the success of the
negotiations was due, was to remain here permanently as
Trade Agent under the new Treaty. Also a party had
to be sent to Gartok to arrange for the opening of the i
new trade-mart there. And preparations for some ex-
ploration work had to be made.
As soon as the Treaty was signed and I could say for s
certain that we would be returning to India, I obtained i
from the Tibetans and Chinese, through Captain O'Connor's i
and Mr. -Wilton's powers of persuasion, leave for three 1
parties to return to India by three different routes besides
the one we came up by. One party was to go down the 11
Brahmaputra to Assam ; another party was to go up the 1,1
Brahmaputra to Gartok, and come out by Simla ; and 1
Mr. Wilton vvas to return to China through Eastern 1
Tibet. For all these passports were given, but only the
second actually set out. ;1
The journey down the Brahmaputra was the one in 1
which many adventurous officers at Lhasa and Sir Louis 1
Dane, the Foreign Secretary, were keenly interested. No i
one to this day knows for certain that the San-po of Tibet i
is the Brahmaputra of Assam. And it was to solve this i
problem, to discover how and where this mighty river i
cuts its way clean through the main axis of the Hima-
layas, and to see the falls and rapids which are involved in
a drop from 11,500 to 500 feet, that so many ardent
spirits were set. Mr. 'White was to have had charge of
this party, and Captain Ryder was to have accompanied ii
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