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0321 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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enough ugly words for the making of his own de-
scription. Being much piqued by his failure, and
being quite without the historic sense, our good
Desgodins falls to exaggeration. The true Tibetan
will perhaps be found somewhere between the pane-
gyrics of Turner and Huc on the one hand and the
maledictions of Desgodins on the other. The grum-
bling missionary scarce tasted the crumbs of a hos-
pitality which had once provided full loaves.
Perhaps if the Tibetans could read *Le Tibet
d'apres la correspondance des Missionaires*, they
might confess to present incivility, while pointing
back through the years to show how they had
treated the European before their hearts were filled
with dread of him. They had received occasional
Europeans since Odoric de Pordenone traversed
Tibet on a westward journey from China in the
fourteenth century.
In the seventeenth century two adventurers have
left trace of wanderings in this far land. In the
eighteenth century various Capuchin and Jesuit
missions—in one case numbering twelve persons—
were lodged almost continuously in Lhasa from
1708 to 1754; and a Dutch lay traveller lived there
during part of the same period. In 1811, Manning,
sole Englishman to make peaceful entry, dwelt in
Lhasa, enjoying the kindness of the lamas, great
and small. Next came Fathers Huc and Gabet,
last of Europeans in Lhasa until the gates were
yesterday opened to the sound of the insister* rifle
—a sound which has scarce ceased to startle the
Hindustani plains or the Himalayan valleys since the
field of Plassy (1757) became an empire's birth-place.
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