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really could be seen in the distance, I received the final
deputation, which had come to make the last great effort to
induce us to stop. It consisted of the old Ta Lama, the
General who had met Mr. White and me at Khamba Jong,
and had since been promoted to the post of Councillor, and
known as the Tsarong Sha-pé, the Chinese official deputed
by the Resident, the Abbot in private attendance on the
Dalai Lama, a Secretary of Council, and the Abbots of
the three great Lhasa monasteries. They repeated the
usual requests that we should not go to Lhasa. I re-
iterated my usual statements that we must go there.
They said that if we would remain where we were they
would supply us with everything—of course, on payment.
The Dalai Lama's private Abbot made a special appeal
on behalf of the religion of Tibet. I told him I was
particularly interested in hearing his views on religion,
but I trusted he would not object to my reminding him
that, while he was an eminent authority on religion, he
had little experience of politics. In political life, when a
country repudiated a treaty, declined to negotiate a new
one, and attacked the Envoy who was sent for that
purpose, it was considered that that country had com-
mitted three very serious offences, any one of which
would be justification for the capture of the capital of the
offending country. In the present case, out of considera-
tion for the special sanctity of the city, we were prepared,
if we encountered no opposition, to abstain from capturing
Lhasa, and I trusted the Abbot would appreciate the
consideration. Perhaps if he had himself been fired on
continually for two months he would not have been
equally moderate. The Abbot laughed, but remarked
that they also had had to suffer.
I promised the Abbot to respect the monasteries.
If they were occupied by soldiers, and we were fired
at from them, as we were from the monasteries round
Gyantse, we should, of course, have to attack them.
But we did not wish to be obliged to resort to force,
and as long as we were not attacked we would prevent
our soldiers from entering the monasteries. I would
also see that soldiers and followers did not enter the
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