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lay the best trade-route and military road to Lhasa.
When the Chumbi Valley had been occupied, the mission
might, transported by Nepalese yaks, march across to
Gyantse. The 32nd Pioneers and all transport would
then be transferred to the Chumbi Valley line, and that
line be made our chief line of communication.
These were my recommendations to Government
when two months' experience had shown me the difficulty
of even entering into communication with the Tibetans.
Neither Mr. White nor I, nor any of us, had any real hope
of effecting a final settlement anywhere short of Lhasa
itself; for it was quite evident to us on the spot that
to carry the negotiations through we should have to come
to close grips with the priestly autocrats who kept all
power in their own hands, and to whom the officials
on the frontier were frightened to represent the real
state of affairs. But at that time it was high treason
for me to whisper the word Lhasa to my nearest friend,
such agitation did the sound of it cause in England. So I
racked my brains and everyone else's brains to think of
alternative measures to an advance to Lhasa, which might
be exhausted before this alarming proposal could be made.
And I subsequently strove honestly to get the utmost out
of each of those measures before I suggested the next, for
I quite realized the difficulty which any Government at
home has in securing support from the House of Commons
in a matter of this kind. Such methods are very costly,
very risky, and very ineffective; but as long as what an
officer in the heart of Asia may do is contingent on the
"will" of "men in the street" of grimy manufacturing
towns in the heart of England, so long must our action be
slow, clumsy, and hesitating, when it ought to be sharp
and decisive.
I have referred to the offer of the Nepalese Govern-
ment to help us with yaks, a species of buffalo peculiar to
Tibet, which are of value as transport animals at high
altitudes. This offer was not only of great practical use,
but of still greater political significance. And it is time
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