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AN EXPLORER'S ADVENTURES IN TIBET

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[Illustration: THE AUTHOR, FEBRUARY, 1897]

[Illustration: THE AUTHOR, OCTOBER, 1897]


AN EXPLORER'S ADVENTURES IN TIBET

by

A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR

Author of
"In the Forbidden Land"
"The Gems of the East"
etc. etc.

With Illustrations by the Author







Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London
MCMX

Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
All rights reserved

Published April, 1910.

Printed in the United States of America




CONTENTS


     CHAP.                                         PAGE

            PREFACE                                 vii

     I.     A FORBIDDEN COUNTRY                       1

     II.    AN UNKNOWN PASS                          10

     III.   A NARROW ESCAPE                          20

     IV.    WATCHED BY SPIES                         29

     V.     WARNED BACK BY SOLDIERS                  37

     VI.    ENCOUNTER WITH A HIGH TIBETAN OFFICIAL   47

     VII.   AN EXCITING NIGHT JOURNEY                58

     VIII.  HUNGRY FUGITIVES                         67

     IX.    AN ATTEMPT AT MUTINY                     79

     X.     AMONG ENEMIES AND ROBBERS                90

     XI.    IN STRANGE COMPANY                      102

     XII.   AMONG THE LAMAS                         113

     XIII.  LIFE IN THE MONASTERIES                 126

     XIV.   ANOTHER DISASTER                        136

     XV.    FOLLOWED BY TIBETAN SOLDIERS            150

     XVI.   FIRST WHITE MAN IN THE SACRED PROVINCE  163

     XVII.  DISASTER AT THE RIVER                   176

     XVIII. CAPTURED                                191

     XIX.   THREATS OF DEATH                        203

     XX.    A TERRIBLE RIDE                         210

     XXI.   THE EXECUTIONER                         220

     XXII.  A CHARMED LIFE                          233

     XXIII. LED TO THE FRONTIER                     245

     XXIV.  WITH FRIENDS AT LAST                    257

            APPENDIX                                267




ILLUSTRATIONS


     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