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or to do everything to make him annoyed. The Tibetans
all burst out laughing at this argument, and I then went
on to say that the Lhasa authorities, instead of doing
everything they could to dispose us favourably towards
them, and incline us to make concessions in regard to
Giagong, had adopted a steadily unfriendly attitude; they
had sent only small officials to meet Mr. White and
myself, and these small officials did nothing but say they
would negotiate nowhere else but at Giagong. This was
not the way to predispose us in their favour.
The Abbot said the delegates were not small officials,
but were next in rank to the Councillors. I said I had
concluded they were men of little power, because when I
had made a speech to them on my first arrival, and had
asked them to report the substance of it to the Lhasa
Government, they had refused. If they could not even
report a speech, I supposed they would not be fit to
negotiate an important treaty.
I asked the Abbot to give this advice to His Holiness
—that if he wished us to withdraw from Khamba Jong, he
should use his influence with the Lhasa authorities to
induce them to send proper delegates, and instruct such
delegates to discuss matters with us in a reasonable and
friendly spirit. Then matters would be very soon settled,
and we would return to India.
I then made some personal observations to the Abbot,
and he told me that from a boy he had been brought up
in a monastery in a religious way, and was not accus-
tomed to deal with political matters. I told him I envied
him his life of devotion. It was my business to wrangle
about these small political matters, but I always admired
those who spent their lives in the worship of God. He
asked me if he might come and see me again, and I said
he might come and see me every day and all day long;
and Captain O'Connor, who could speak Tibetan, would
often pay him visits.
On August 24 the Abbot again came to see me, and
said that after his previous visit he had gone to the Lhasa
delegates and urged them to negotiate at Khamba Jong,
instead of at Giagong. But they had replied that, just as
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