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0379 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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CHAPTER XIX

IMPRESSIONS AT LHASA

With the signature of the Treaty a tense strain was
released, and as I rode down from the Potala I felt at
last at ease. That evening General Macdonald, Major
Iggulden, his chief staff officer, and the rest of the military
staff entertained the Mission at dinner, and among the
memories of that eventful day will always be included the
recollection of the warmly appreciative speech which
General Macdonald made on that occasion.

On the day following two Councillors visited me, and
I informed them that General Macdonald had agreed to
my request to release all prisoners of war. These were
paraded in front of the house, and General Macdonald
sent a staff officer to order their release and to give each
man Rs. 5 for work he had done.

The Sha-pés then produced two men who had been
imprisoned owing to assistance they had given to Sarat
Chandra Das, the Bengali traveller, and two men who
had been imprisoned for helping the Japanese traveller,
Kawaguchi. The two first men had been in chains for
nineteen years, and showed signs of terrible suffering. All
were in abject fear of the Tibetans, bowing double before
them. Their cheeks were sunken, their eyes glazed and
staring, their expression unchangeably fixed in horror,
and their skin as white and dry as paper. Their release
was entirely due to the exertions of Captain O'Connor.
I thanked the Sha-pés for their action, which I looked
upon as a sign that they really wished to live on friendly
terms with us. I trusted that they would never again
imprison men whose only offence was friendliness to
British subjects.

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