ABSTRACT
The outcome was the negotiations at Chefoo in the summer of 1876 from which Wade secured the provisions of the Chefoo Convention. Thus the Separate Article of the Chefoo Convention contained provisions for the sending of British missions both to Lhasa and to Chinese Turkestan. Tibet was involved in British treaty relations with China, and after 1876 references to Tibet is frequent in the despatches from Peking. The Tibetans, of course, were much alarmed by news of the provision of the Chefoo Convention of which they learnt soon enough from the Amban. In Sikkim the British had been busy in the five years following the signing of the Chefoo Convention in smoothing the way for the hoped-for Tibet trade by improving communications. The Chinese, Macaulay thought, could hardly refuse a British request for permission to send a mission into Tibet.
