India and Tibet

India and Tibet is a history of the relations which have subsisted between the two countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910, with a particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904, by Sir Francis Younghusband. The text says that a letter from the Viceroy to the Dalai Lama was returned to Captain Kennion with the intimation that the officials had not dared, in the face of the regulations against the intrusion of foreigners into Tibet, to send it to Lhasa.

The text says that at the very time when the Viceroy was making fruitless efforts to enter into direct communication with the Dalai Lama came the information that this exclusive personage had been sending an Envoy to the Czar. A speaker says that he turned to the Tibetan Councillors and said that the King-Emperor considered the seizure, imprisonment, and beating of two of his subjects as an exceedingly serious offence. The text has Bogle say of someone that he was about forty years of age and that his disposition was open, candid, and generous.