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0310 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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CHAPTER XVI

A CENTURY OF IRRITATIONS—THE FUMES OF THE
OPIUM WAR CLOUD THE POLITICAL SKY—
FATHERS HUC AND GABET

SO vigorous was this Chinese campaign that a
treaty of peace had been signed ere the appeal
of the Goorkhas to British power at Calcutta could
be answered. The East India Company was ready
to respond, but Colonel Kirkpatrick, sent by Lord
Cornwallis, arrived too late to enter into a bloody
contention, which, if thus complicated, might have
altered Tibetan history. His visit accomplished
little, except to sow in the minds of the Chinese
that distrust of the British which they have had so
many occasions to justify, and which properly ex-
tends to all European military nations.

It is pleasant to turn from the contemplation of
a possible unprovoked British attack (which was
postponed for more than a century) and read of
the friendly relations which existed between Tibet
and the Company, under Hastings, the great prede-
cessor of Cornwallis, as Governor-General. Bhutan,
east of Nepal, its people and institutions much re-
sembling those of Tibet, had given offence by way
of some violence against territory claimed to be
under British protection. The Bhutanese were duly
punished, and when measures of special rigour were
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