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0381 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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ple. Tibet is not. Afghanistan is a bridge spanning
directly from British to Russian territory. Tibet is
not. Afghanistan is of like religion with millions
of the least pliable among the Indian populations.
Tibet is not. Afghanistan is blown with fanaticism
and the pride of past conquests in Hindoo lands.
Tibet is not. Such are their dissimilarities. But
both are small nations, clinging devotedly to their
present political and social conditions; both felt
themselves as sitting insecurely just beyond the last
reach of the lion's claws. Afghanistan had twice
been torn to the entrails by his outstretched wrath,
but had flung death aside; and now, through the
skill of an English surgeon who healed the Ameer's
hand (wounded in a shooting accident); through the
elation caused by news of disaster in Manchuria to
one of the threatening neighbours; through several
transient favouring causes, the royal mind has un-
bent and leaned, or now seems to lean, toward
British friendship.
The observer who knows only these facts might
well inquire as to the wisdom of a course which,
by a needless attack upon a hermit people, may
frighten the young confidence of the Ameer and
confirm him in the faith, held by so many of his
people, that the lion never sleeps and is always
hungry. The possibility of losing ground in Af-
ghanistan by virtue of a raid into Tibet, with doubt-
ful gain as maximum reward, must certainly have
been contemplated by a watchful Government in
Calcutta. In respect to such an indirect and some-
what complicated relation, the amateur and foreign
critic is silent, or merely wonders. He bows to the