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0200 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 200 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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arly tired of this fencing about al-
need to get in under these reserve
at if we could meet and could talk thi
ys and intermissions manner what
cloud, we might at any rate get a cha
Americans call a "move on." It was
ned to me to make a supreme effort,
ely small matter settled by peaceful m
very considerable risk was incurred o
I wished particularly to see them, a
m in their own natural surroundings,
ing called upon by Government to give
the probable action of the Tibetans, fo
ver seen them in our own camps, and the
fused to admit me into theirs. I there
e the following morning, without any
had any previous announcement, and w
a ride over to their camp, about ten m
tion, and talk over the general situatio
as Commissioner, with a list of grievance
to formal redress, but as one who wish
d then, and by friendly means to affor
I was only too well aware that such a
likely to be taken by the Tibetans as a s
all, even I saw these people so determin
not running the might of the British
I said, I felt it my duty to reason wi
e idea seemed, to save them from the
to protest.

Conner and Captain Sawyer, of the 23r
a young Tibetan, accompanied me, and
were not to even a single report in emer
a Tibetan chief would not come to see m
to do the more pleased that I had to
message arrived.

of Tibetan village under a cliff, the
meeting-place, but there was no particul
Tibetans and we rode straight into the