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various Tibetan officials that he should withdraw to
the point named by them, remorseless advance of
the armed executioners, and finally ¹ a day came
when—oh, but it was all their fault.
We only wanted to disarm them, and they "began
it." We were disarming them and they began it!
We are sorry, but such stupidity, such disobedience,
clearly puts us in the right. The hundreds whom we
shot down were really suicides, and our men were so
moderate! They killed only some hundreds (we
never knew how many) and yet they were filled
with righteous vengeance, for several of our people
were killed by the rebels and several more were
injured. How wickedly stupid of them to resist
this disarmament! Have we not come for their
good? And did they not send presents to the Czar?
And now is anything left to us, followers of Christ,
except to march on to Lhasa and teach these
people a lesson?
Yes, O lordly Briton, you have taught them a
lesson and all the world is the worse for it. Per-
haps good shall come out of the evil you have
done, but you have been made to do what men call
evil, even as the tempest that wrecks our ships,
even as the fever which ravages our health, even
as the serpent which poisons all the body.
So the march was made to Lhasa, after the glorious
victory of Guru and many other butcheries.
Decorations were being devised while the treaty
was under consideration. But the Dalai Lama had
gone from his seat ere the British entered. While
they were gazing with ambitious eyes upon the build-
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