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0091 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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of docile folk whom you would benevolently exploit
by firm government and an exclusive commercial
system, it appears plain as a pikestaff that vagrant
French and Americans should not be encouraged to
spy out the land and perhaps to create incidents out
of which new ideas might be born. Would Cortez
have welcomed independent English or French
travellers in Mexico while he was preaching to won-
dering Aztecs the doctrine of his master's universal
dominion? Would the British have left a free latch-
string to indiscriminate Europeans when they had
undone the work of Dupleix in India, and were
considered as special envoys of the gods, irresistible?
Already the Russians have done much political and
commercial pioneering in Chinese Turkestan. Our
international code gives them what we call a "right"
to garner the fruits of seed sown in wild places.
We watched the play between Petrovsky and
Miles with some amusement and much serious
concern as to our plans. The cards ran to Miles.
A parade of other nationalities through Turkestan
could do no harm to British designs, which cannot
reasonably look to conquest north of Tibet. And,
small as was our individual importance, we might a
little disturb the Muscovite program.
The powerful Consul General could probably de-
termine the Taotai's mind for or against us. As to
the result we were left in dangling doubt until the
very morning which we had set for our departure.
Then came the Taotai's smug young secretary bear-
ing letters which we might present to the Ambans
in Yarkand and Khotan, and telling us that other
letters would be written to the chiefs of nomad