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0317 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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which followed. For in the sequestered valleys of
Tibet the echo of British cannon was heard, a tocsin
arousing every dormant suspicion against the white
man.

Nor ask these startled people to narrowly dis-
tinguish between French and English and German.
Do not we, pride-blind in our wisdom, fill books
with level criticism of "Asiatics," mingling civilisa-
tions and barbarisms, plainsman and mountaineer,
Mohammedan and Buddhist, Mongol and Aryan,
in one foolish mummery of insulting classification?
So it was that Ke-Shen—wiser than the kindly
Tibetans, knowing better than they the fearful
power of the white man, remembering Nepal, re-
membering Rudok, burning with shame for Canton
—inflexibly demanded that the French missionary
should go.

"Fear the Greeks, bearing gifts." Like so many
of his predecessors, Father Huc seemed — indeed
he was—an humble, devoted evangel, seeking not
the glory of France, or of Europe, but of Christ.
Yet he was Europe; he will, in spite of himself,
spy out the land; he will spread knowledge of it
through the peoples to whom his body and his mind
belonged, and, even if he be only a lama (who
knows in Lhasa what he really is?), his story will
excite the gold-lust, the power-lust of the restless,
the irresistible; of the people who ride on the
waters with fire, and who seize the uttermost parts
of the earth with hands that run with blood.

The obvious co-operation in later years between
Chinese and Tibetans in enforcing a determined
policy of exclusion against all foreigners, Asiatic as