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0014 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 14 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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t's needed for the length of this book.
ing through the press, a Parliamentary Bl
ained containing much important information a
ments, and what I had intended as only
of relations with Tibet up to the return of
ld fought with advantage might be exten
ur relations to the present time. The wh
e connected narrative of the attempt, previous
m, to accomplish a single purpose—the estab
of ordinary neighbourly intercourse with Tib
tion only disclosed is that, when that purpo
at last achieved, we forthwith abandoned

ons for this abandonment have been—first
ance by two great Powers for one another
ould be love of isolation engrained in so isolated
ngland had our aim should be to replace year
tion, and instead of coiling up in frigid isolation
d found ourselves to make and keep friendshi
ons I have recommended are living persons—
ble by means, and what Warren Hastings pl
has need—an agent at Lhasa—to to not
he means of achieving our purpose.
of the excuse of having made mistakes in the
the value of those affairs which fell to me
the every true adjustment of diplomatic
ble payments, and of the wisdom of men
I paid by a human being arrived at perfe
of having arrived there, I doubtless ma
ble, I am only assume that, if I had neve
ble, I should never have made a singl