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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
| 南チベット : vol.2 |
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CHAPTER VII.
WILLIAM MOORCROFT'S JOURNEY TO THE
MANASAROVAR.
We now come to one of the most brilliant chapters in the history of explora-
tion round the lakes and the sources of the great rivers.
WILLIAM MOORCROFT was a native of Lancashire and educated at Liverpool
for the profession of a surgeon. He settled in London as a practitioner of veterinary
surgery, and there received an offer from the Court of Directors of the East India
Company to go out to Bengal as superintendent of their military stud. Thus he
left England in May 1808 for India. He was a man with very wide and broad
views and his ambition was to open to British industry countries in most of which
British manufactures were at that time wholly unknown. In a letter written in the
mountains of Garhwal, Dec. 27th 1819, he says that he had heard from reliable
sources in Calcutta, »that little extension of commerce in the direction he had taken
was reasonably to be expected, because the intercourse of the Cis and Trans-Hima-
layans had never been active.» He observed that the trade from British India to
Yarkand and Lhasa was wholly in the hands of Kashmir, and, after several years
of hard work he was justified in saying: »If I fall, my country will set a due value
on my motives, and at least allow me a claim to disinterested perseverance.»
Another ambition of his was to improve the breed of horses in Hindustan,
and introduce English and Turkman stallions, instead of Arab. Therefore, on his
second great journey he crossed the Himalayas and went to Balkh and Bokhara, to
find the best Turkman horses. On this journey he was provided with a great stock
of merchandise, with the revenue of which he intended to buy horses to be sold to
the Government. In a double way he would serve his country, but the principal
aim was to establish a commercial intercourse with the Trans-Himalayan districts,
which would be highly advantageous to Great Britain. ¹
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