"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [ظ‎‎٦‎٧] (٢٢٨/١٣٩)

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nineteen and later by eighty camels, many ol
which were loaded with long boxes believed
to contain rifles, and five hundred more camels
were expected when he left Lhasa for Shigatse.
Mr. Teramoto thought that the boxes probably
contained rifles, because goods from Mongolia
are nearly always packed in leather, and not
in wood, and he had never seen wooden boxes
of such a length brought from Mongolia
before. Further, in the course of conversation
with servants belonging to the lodging house
in which the Russians stayed, he learnt that
the packages were much heavier than those
containing the usual imports from Mongolia,
viz., cloth, silks, silver, &c. A military officer
named Ma, on the Amban’s staff in Lhasa,
also told him that the officers were Russians,
and that they were bringing rifles to Lhasa.
On reaching Shigatse, Mr. Teramoto learnt
from some Lhasa monks that about one
thousand camels belonging to the same party
had arrived at Lhasa, many of them carrying
boxes of the same make and escorted by
Buriats. While at Gyantse, Mr. Teramoto
further heard from some of the monks of the
big monastery there that a large consignment
of Russian rifles had been received at Lhasa.
While at Lhasa, Mr. Teramoto went with
a crowd of pilgrims to the Potala, on one of
the holy days when such pilgrims go to obtain
the blessing of the Dalai Lama, or, in
his absence, the blessing of the Ti-Rimpoche.
One of the palace attendants, thinking Mr.
Teramoto to be a Mongolian, called him aside
from the crowd, and asked him if he had met
the Dalai Lama in Mongolia. He replied that
he had not, since he had come from Koko Nor,
whereas the Dalai Lama had gone via Tsaidam
to TTrga. Mr. Teramoto enquired what the
Dalai Lama meant to do in Mongolia, and the
attendant said that he hoped to get assistance
from the Russians.
Mr. Teramoto sent two telegrams to the
Japanese Minister at Peking during his stay in
Gyantse and received replies to them.
The Government of Bengal have been
requested to suggest to Mr. Teramoto, on
his arrival in Calcutta or Darjeeling, that he
should come up to Simla to interview the
Government of India, who will defray the
expenses connected with his visit.
5. See
paragraph 6 of the Memo-
raruJum for June 1905. The party sent by
the Tasbi Lama to ask the Dalai Lama to
wDirn, consisted of the following two
,, W, . ? Tsccho Lingpa, an uncle (on the
mother s side) of the Tashi Lama, who was
formerly one of the four Grand Secretaries
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