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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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ings which represent a people's faith, and were violat-
ing by their presence a people's rights, he was errant
on the plains; where, we do not know. Then came
his deposition from temporal power by Chinese edict;
the arm that reaches from London to Lhasa swings
heavily round to Pekin.ยน The Pantchen Lama is
set up by British force, because somebody must
sign the treaty they have drafted, something must
be done to give basis for further action next year.
The season draws on apace, and it would be a
fearsome thing to be shut up in Lhasa all the long
winter. Even these unarmed people might find a
way of deliverance during the months when no more
cartridges could come from the land of Bibles. And
food is scarce, of course; while the fear is upon
them, the Tibetans let the grain come in, but even
their fear or their good-will cannot grow another
crop to feed the unusual mouths. If all these be fed,
Tibetans must starve. Starving men are desperate.
Nay, we must go down the hill, having gaily
marched up its steeps. But somebody must sign
something; so the poor recluse from Teshalumbo
is brought to Lhasa; clothed, by the British, with
authority which amounts to a revolution in Tibetan
administration; signs a paper drawn by the British,
and they go away. The work is done, or well begun.
Next year, when the impossible indemnity shall still
hang over the land, we shall be in Chumbi Valley.
and does not Clause IX. make us suzerains in fact
though (now) we hypocritically declare that we have
not disturbed the peace of China, and though we
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