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India and Tibet : vol.1 |
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the India Office have ever had—the man who without any
faltering hesitation annexed Burma, to the lasting benefit
of the Burmese, of ourselves, and of humanity—there
seemed now a real prospect of success. Lord Randolph
Churchill and Colman Macaulay were something of kindred
spirits, and Macaulay was sent to Peking with every
support and encouragement to get the necessary permit
for a mission to Lhasa. The Chinese assented. Per-
mission was granted. Macaulay organized his mission,
bought rich presents, collected his transport, and was on
the eve of starting from Darjiling when "international
considerations" came in and Government countermanded
the whole affair.
"Everything had gone so fairly," wrote Macaulay to
Sir Clements Markham from Darjiling in October, 1886,
"that it was difficult for us here to believe that we should
be shipwrecked within sight of the promised land." Yet
so it was, and he took his disappointment so deeply to
heart that he completely broke down in health, and died
a few years later.
Immediately following on the abandonment of the
mission came the most unprovoked aggression on the
part of the Tibetans. They crossed the Jelap-la, the pass
from Chumbi into Sikkim and the frontier between Tibet
and our feudatory State, and they occupied Lengtu,
eighteen miles on our side of the frontier, building a
guard-house there, and turning out one of our road over-
seers, placed there to superintend the road which Sir
Richard Temple had made when Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal. And on hearing that the mission had been
countermanded, they became so elated that they boasted
that they would occupy Darjiling, only seventy-eight
miles off, and something like a panic ensued in this
almost unprotected summer resort. At the same time,
on the opposite side of Tibet they were still more actively
aggressive, expelling the Roman Catholic missionaries
from their long-established homes at Batang, massacring
many of their converts, and burning the mission-house.
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