قراءة كتاب An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet
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ILLUSTRATONS
| THE AUTHOR | Frontispiece | |
| INVOLUNTARY TOBOGGANING | Facing p. | 10 |
| AT NIGHT I LED MY MEN UP THE MOUNTAIN IN A FIERCE SNOW-STORM | " | 64 |
| BEHIND OUR BULWARKS | " | 76 |
| THE BANDITS LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS | " | 102 |
| A NATURAL CASTLE | " | 136 |
| CAMP WITH GIGANTIC INSCRIPTIONS | " | 142 |
| TORRENTIAL RAIN | " | 150 |
| TIBETAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | " | 174 |
| PURCHASING PONIES | " | 192 |
| I WAS A PRISONER | " | 194 |
| DRAGGED INTO THE SETTLEMENT | " | 196 |
| CHANDEN SING BEING FLOGGED | " | 202 |
| THE RIDE ON A SPIKED SADDLE | " | 218 |
| WE ATTACKED OUR GUARD WITH STONES | " | 254 |
| CLIFF HABITATIONS | " | 262 |
PREFACE
This book deals chiefly with the author's adventures during a journey taken in Tibet in 1897, when that country, owing to religious fanaticism, was closed to strangers. For the scientific results of the expedition, for the detailed description of the customs, manners, etc., of the people, the larger work, entitled In the Forbidden Land (Harper & Brothers, publishers), by the same author, should be consulted.
During that journey of exploration the author made many important geographical discoveries, among which may be mentioned:
(a) The discovery of the two principal sources of the Great Brahmaputra River, one of the four largest rivers in the world.
(b) The ascertaining that a high range of mountains existed north of the Himahlyas, but with no such great elevations as the highest of the Himahlyan