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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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actually must await Pekin's action before claiming
the whole thing as a *fait accompli?*
But surely we have done enough to *justify* us in
further interference. We can ever claim that this
treaty, signed by our Pantchen Lama, gave us *vested
rights*. There! Is not that worth a whole deluge of
decorations? Think of it! We have vested rights
in Tibet! Why these people are under our *protection!*
In our paternal care of them we may exclude every-
body else. We may even exclude the Buriat wor-
shippers (Russian subjects) from the shrine of their
religion; for did not great danger come to our wards
through one of them? Were we not vexed by his
taking of presents to the Czar? And suppose we
had not been the considerate, too-tender, too-for-
giving Christians that we are, how terrible might
have been the fate of these people!
Twice have they grievously sinned against us,
yea, thrice. Once—never let it be forgot!—they sent
presents to the Czar; once they refused to receive a
peaceful mission of soldiers, when and where Colonel
Younghusband desired to be received; and once they
declined to be disarmed by us. And yet many of
them are alive! Has ever a people been so full of
Christian grace as the English people? And, lastly,
we can now arrange that these people shall buy tea
from us. It may be cheaper than the tea they now
prefer, and yet at a lower price there will be profit
in it for us. Truly our Good-Samaritanism is with-
out bounds!
And now we must go, because we see we cannot
be comfortable here, all of us, during their dread-
ful winter; and though we have won their love,
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