THE appearance of this volume has been delayed by a variety of unforeseen causes. Before the manuscript was completed, the author was suddenly called upon to go to Chitral, during the campaign which was being carried out in that country in 1895. Again, last December, when but a few pages were in print, he was unexpectedly summoned to a distant part of the world at a few hours' notice.
Before leaving, he requested me to see the work through the press. This task has been an unusually interesting and agreeable one, but has been attended by some little difficulty, for some of the places named are not to be found on any existing maps, while, inasmuch as many of the incidents described are known to the author alone, the process of verification, when any uncertainty arose, was in some instances impossible.
In these circumstances, I must ask the reader not to hold the author responsible for any inaccuracies which may be found in these pages.
Captain Younghusband's achievements as a traveller and explorer, which won for him a very distinguished place among the Gold Medallists of the Royal Geographical Society, are too well known to call for many words of introduction to this record of his principal expeditions.
In 1886 he visited Manchuria, and penetrated to the summit of Chang-pai-shan, the " Ever-White Mountain," in company with Mr. James of the Indian Civil Service.
Returning thence to Peking, he started, in 1887, on his adventurous journey through the heart of Asia, across the
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