PREFACE
IN presenting to the public a record of my journeys and
explorations in Tibet and Chinese Turkestan, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to Colonel St. G. C. Gore, R.E., Surveyor-General of India, and to the Officers and Officials of the Trigonometrical Branch at Debra Dun for the very great assistance given me by them, both privately and officially.
My thanks are also due to my friend, Arnold Pike, for his genial companionship, his very valuable services in numerous ways and for his ready acquiescence in allowing me to reproduce some of his photographs.
Amongst the many others to whom I owe a debt of gratitude are the Council of the Royal Geographical Society ; Major G. Chenevix Trench, formerly British Joint Commissioner in Ladak; Captain A. H. MacMahon, C.I.E., C.S.I., formerly Political Agent at Gilgit; G. Macartney, Esq., C.I.E., Special Assistant for Chinese
Affairs to the Resident in Kashmir ; Major W. R. Yeilding, C.I.E., D.S.O. ; the Astronomer Royal, Mr. W. H. M. Christie, C.B. ; Mr. E. G. Baker, of the British Museum, for kindly preparing the Botanical Appendix ;
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