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0059 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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CHAPTER III

MANNING'S VISIT TO LHASA

Now when statesmen were most lukewarm about Tibet
the inevitable English adventurer came to the front. And
it is a curious circumstance that it was just when our
relations with the Tibetans were at their coldest that
the only Englishman who ever reached Lhasa before the
Mission of 1904 achieved this success. He was not an
accredited agent of Government sent to bring into effect
a deliberate policy such as that conceived by Warren
Hastings. He was a private adventurer, and he went up
in spite of, and against the wishes of, the Government of
the time.

His name was Manning. At Cambridge he was the
friend of Charles Lamb, and was of such ability that he
was expected to be at least Second Wrangler, but he was
of an eccentric nature, and "had a strong repugnance to
oaths," and left the University without a degree. He
conceived, however, a passionate desire to see the Chinese
Empire. He studied the Chinese language in France and
England, afterwards made his way to Canton, remained there
three years, and in 1810 procured a letter of introduction
from the Select Committee of Canton to Lord Minto, then
Governor-General of India, asking him to give him every
practicable assistance in the prosecution of his plans. But
he received little or no aid from the Government, and was
left to his own resources, without official recognition of
any description.

Manning, attended by a Chinese servant, proceeded to
Tibet through Bhutan, and on October 21, 1811, arrived
at Phari, at the head of the Chumbi Valley. His descrip-
tion of the Jong then precisely corresponds with our own
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