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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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This it is that affrights them, this ever-advancing
boom of cannon, rattle of musketry. They have
cherished a tradition that the snow-gods inhabiting
the colossal seats of their southern border would
protect them against all enemies coming up from
that region : but the Goorkha and Kashmir invasions
brought a doubt, and now they know that there is a
people mightier than their ancestral gods, mighty to
conquer, and mighty, we shall hope, to rule wisely
and justly. It has been increasingly clear to the
Tibetans and to their suzerains, that only complete
exclusion of Europeans would effectively preserve
the *status quo*. It was also clear that their watch-
fulness and rigour might be specially directed toward
the southern frontier (British Darjeeling being only
twelve marches from Lhasa) rather than toward the
north where interminable deserts stretched their
rampart of desolation.
They had seen Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and
Ladak, constituting the whole of their southern
and western frontier, pass under British "protec-
tion,'' and recently, in 1888, they had seen Sikkim,
a little territory (2600 square miles) wedged in be-
tween Bhutan and Nepal, fall into a much more
direct control of the invaders. Vainly had they
protested against this last approach— for Sikkim was
in a sense Tibetan territory, interposing only a two-
days sharp march between Darjeeling and their now
recognised boundaries. Protest took the form
indeed of an army, a monkish rabble armed with
spears, matchlocks or bows, and which wisely fled
before the organised destruction of British cannon.
Then must the Tibetans have felt that they were
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