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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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APPENDIX J
Pages 118 and 119 of "Papers Relating to Tibet, 1904."
Letter from the Government of India, in the Foreign De-
partment, to the Right Honourable Lord George F.
Hamilton, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India,
dated Simla, the 25th July, 1901. (Received the 12th
August, 1901.)
(Extract)
In despatch dated the 8th December, 1899, Your Lordship
approved of the measures which we had adopted with the
object of establishing direct communication with the Tibet-
ans. We have now the honour to forward correspondence
which shows the further action taken in the matter. When
our despatch dated the 26th October, 1899, was written, we
were awaiting the return of Ugyen Kazi, the Bhutan Vakil,
from Tibet and the outcome of a letter which he had under-
taken to deliver to the Dalai Lama. That letter having met
with an unfavourable response, we decided to defer making
any further attempt to obtain access to the Dalai Lama by
the Sikkim route, and to seek some new channel of com-
munication. Enquiries were accordingly instituted as to the
possibility of despatching a suitable emissary to the Tibetan
capital either through Yunnan, or through Nepal, or by way
of Ladakh. Our resident in Nepal, who was verbally con-
sulted, advised against any attempt being made to reach
Lhasa via Nepal, except with the knowledge and consent of
the Nepalese Darbar, to whom we were not prepared to
refer. The agent whom we suggested to the Government of
Burma as a possible emissary for the mission through Yunnan
was reported to be unsuitable. The proposal to communi-
cate through Ladakh, however, seemed to offer some prospect
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