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
EXPLORING PARTIES 329
it as Survey Officer. All that was wanting was the
sanction of the Government of India, and that, unfortu-
nately, at the last moment was not forthcoming. The
party would have had to find a way through some
truculent, independent tribes between the border of Tibet
and the Assam frontier, and Government were not at
that moment prepared to run any further risks. It was a
pity, and a sad disappointment to many, for it will be
many a year before we again have such an opportunity of
solving `what is one of the greatest remaining geographical
problems.
Mr. Wilton's journey I had myself to stop, though
there is nothing I hate more than to block enterprise in
travel. The negotiations with the Chinese were not con-
cluded—in fact, had hardly commenced—and I could not
afford to part with anyone so valuable to us in India as he
had proved himself to be. We Indian officials are like
children in dealing with the Chinese, and the help of that
special experience with which Mr. Wilton so effectively
had aided us was particularly necessary at this time,
though it is deplorable to find from the latest Blue-book
how little advantage was taken of the advice he gave.
The Gartok party I put in charge of Captain Rawling,
as its main purpose was to open the new mart, and he had
in the previous year made a remarkable and most useful
journey in Western 'Tibet. Captain Ryder had been
detailed for charge of the survey operations of the
expedition down the Brahmaputra, and Lieutenant
Wood, R.E., who had been engaged for some time in
resurveying the peaks round Mount Everest in Nepal,
was to have done the survey work with the Gartok party.
But now that the project for the former expedition had
fallen through, Captain Ryder also accompanied the
Gartok party and took charge of the survey. He was an
officer of great capacity, and during the M ission had done
most valuable work in extending the triangulation of
India right up to Lhasa. He had now an even more
interesting piece of geographical work before him— the
survey of the upper course of the Brahmaputra (San-po)
to its source, and the settling definitely of the question
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