IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan : vol.1 | |
| チベットと中国領トルキスタン : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER I
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Desire to explore—Tibet a good field—Difficulties to be encountered --Object of expedition--Preparations in Srinagar—Goodbye to Trench—Crossing the Zoji La—Matayan—Journey to Leh-
,- Arranging the caravan—Départure from Leh—Visit to Himis
. Monastery.—Crossing the Chang Las—Hired transport—Fobrang
preparations—The Marsemik La Chang Chenmo—Crossing- the frontier—Entering unknown land—Without guides-
; Commencement df triangulation—Horpa or Gurmen Cho—Mag-
. nificent snow mountains—Untrained assistants—Our first yak-
- • Yeshil Kul—No water—" Fever Camp."
HAD long entertained the. desire -to travel in some , unknown country, and in the spring of 1896, when circumstances were favourable, the wish was transformed into a settled purpose. The vast extent. of the territory•
marked " unexplored " on the map of Tibet, then recently -published, at once attracted me, and it was to this inhospitable and almost inaccessible land that I resolved to proceed. My efforts had already been devoted to the *study of the appliances which are indispensable to the explorer. Remembering Sir Richard Burton's warning that travel in unknown- lands is mere waste of time .unless the .traveller has suitable instruments and skill to
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