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0060 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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experiences in Tibet on many an occasion since: "Dirt,
dirt, grease, smoke. Misery, but good mutton."

A Chinese Mandarin arrived there about the same time,
and Manning gave him two bottles of cherry-brandy and
a wineglass. This, and probably Manning's very original
manners, evidently unfroze his heart, for he asked him to
dinner, and promised to write immediately to the Lhasa
Mandarin for permission for him to proceed. Manning
also received applications to cure soldiers, and his medicines
"did wonderfully well, and the patients were very grateful."
They even petitioned for him to go with the Mandarin
towards Gyantse, and the Mandarin granted their
request.
Altogether, Manning made a very favourable impression
on the Chinese who, he remarked, lorded it in Tibet like the
English in India, and made the Tibetans stand before
them. And he considered then that there were advantages
in having the Chinese in this superior position. "Things
are much pleasanter now the Chinese are here," he says:
"the magistrate hints about overtures respecting opening
a commercial intercourse between the Chinese and the
English through Bhutan. I cannot help exclaiming in my
mind (as I often do) what fools the Company are to give
me no commission, no authority, no instructions. What
use are their Embassies when their Ambassadors cannot
speak to a soul, and can only make ordinary phrases pass
through a stupid interpreter? No finesse, no tournure,
no compliments. Fools, fools, fools, to neglect an oppor-
tunity they may never have again!"

Poor Manning experienced very severe cold, and
travelled to Gyantse in great discomfort, and felt these
discomforts acutely, so that the greater part of his diary
is filled with quaint denunciation of his Chinese clerk;
of a vicious horse which kicked and bit him; of the
"common horse-furniture," which was "detestable"; of
the saddle which was so high behind and before that he sat