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0017 The heart of a continent : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000247
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NOTICE.

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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