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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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followed what I really believe to be one of the most re-
markable military movements that ever was made in
the world—seventy thousand Chinese are said to have
crossed the passes from the east to get to Lhasa. From
the borders of their own country to Lhasa is a good
twelve hundred miles, and although a part of the country
is very different from that which Mr. Crosby has de-
scribed, i.e., the upper valley of the Brahmaputra and
the immediate neighbourhood of Lhasa, which is com-
paratively low, and where there is a considerable amount
of cultivation, still the greater part of the journey must
have been across most horribly difficult mountain passes,
where they must have lost multitudes of men. Never-
theless, they not only reached Lhasa, but, having got
there, they started for another four hundred miles en
route to Nepaul. They beat the Ghurkas handsomely,
first of all to the north of their own mountains, and then
followed them over their passes. The Ghurkas made
their last stand some twenty miles in front of Khatmandu,
and there the Chinese finally defeated them, and left
such a reputation behind them that to this day the
Nepaulese send deputations to China once every five
years to pay tribute. It only shows us the danger of
depreciating a possible adversary. The best fighting
men that we know in the East are Ghurkas and Sikhs,
and yet they have been beaten all to nothing by Chinese
in times gone past. And to this day Chinese authority
over the whole of Tibet is practically as sound, I im-
agine, as ever it was. I would ask you, in conclusion,
to differentiate carefully between Northern Tibet—the
Tibet which Mr. Crosby has described to-night—and
the true "Bodyul," which is the scene of Colonel
Younghusband's mission at the present moment. It is
only in South-eastern Tibet, in the upper valley of the
Brahmaputra, that there really is a country which you
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