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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Tibetan fields. Substantially the whole force
would be rendered impotent for offence by the
requirements of the commissary department. So
narrow is the present margin of food-supply, so
impossible the import of food from the north, that
every augmentation of numbers attempted by an
occupying power would only increase the difficulty
of maintenance. But let us further suppose the
incredible. Imagine, then, a small band of surviving
Russians, who shall have committed such frightful
slaughter as to paralyse the faculties of the lamas,
preventing them from offering even the Quaker
resistance of the English nonconformist to irritating
school-rates. Imagine some of them enrolled be-
hind Russian leaders and newly learned in the art
of firing Russian rifles. Now they must be pro-
jected against, nay, through, Bhutan, Sikkim, or
Nepal. In the nature of the case, the Europeans
are but a handful, and the natives are but a rabble,
and the ammunition-supply is small and the food-
supply precarious. It would be wearisome to try,
in these pages, the chances of every pass by which
they might graze the crest of the Himalayas.
I appeal for justification to every British officer
in whose breast burns even a spark of the old flame,
when I say that not a single man of such an invad-
ing force would ever reach the soil of India proper.
The Himalayas would swallow them; the place of
their graves need never be known save to the Brit-
ish-led Sikhs and the Goorkhas who would have
killed them. And if this be not true, then the
emasculated Briton should render to Cæsar the
things that are Cæsar's, for Cæsar is ever enthroned
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