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あまりなじみの無い単語・熟語をちょっと解説。
Seven Years in Tibet :
Escape-15At length the governor showed us a cave where we could pass the night, telling us once more that we must leave Tibet, using the road by which we had come. We refused to accept his ruling and tried to explain to him that Tibet was a neutral state and ought to offer us asylum. But his mind could not grasp this idea, and he was not competent to make a decision, even if he had understood it. So we proposed to him that we should leave the decision to a high-ranking official, a monk whose official residence was in Thuling, only five miles away.
Tsaparang was really a curiosity. I had learned from the books I had studied in the camp that the first Catholic mission station in Tibet had been founded here in 1624. The Portuguese Jesuit Antonio de Andrade had formed a Catholic community and is said to have built a church. We searched for traces of it but could not find any remains of a Christian building. Our own experience made us realize how difficult it must have been for Father Antonio to establish his mission here.
The next day we marched to Thuling to lay our case before the monk. There we found Aufschnaiter and Treipel, who had followed a different route. We all visited the abbot of the cloister, who happened to be the official we wanted, but found him deaf to our prayers to proceed on our way eastward. He agreed to sell us provisions only if we promised to go back to Shangtse, which lay on our road to India. There was nothing to do but agree, as we were without food.
At length：ようやく
ruling：決定・判決
asylum：庇護
competent：適任な、権利を有する
Thuling・Tsaparang：地名
curiosity：ものめずらしさ
mission：伝道
Jesuit：イエズス会士
Antonio de Andrade：人名
community：共同体
it：a churchのこと
here：チベットのこと
lay：申し立てる
Aufschnaiter・Treipel：人名
abbot：大修道院長、僧院長
cloister：修道院、僧院
seat：所在地
Its：The countryのこと
Tsaparang・Shangtse：地名
provision：食料