Home Tibet, the mysterious [microform] Tibet, the mysterious [microform]. Recommend Documents. Johnston, G. Hogarth, M. Clifford, C. Dawson, Litt. Mill, LL. Limited m- MIMi r PREFACE NO country in the world has exercised a more potent influence on the imaginations of men or presented such fascinating problems for solution to the explorer as Tibet ; and this influence has been active amongst all the generations which have exploited the byeways of the earth from the days of Herodotus to those of Younghusband.
It may be doubted whether even now the fascination of Tibetan travel is dead. But the glamour of it has undoubtedly faded somewhat since the streets of Lhasa have been trodden by the spurred and booted Englishman and his ruthless hand has exposed the mystic shams of that quaint and squalid city.
With Lhasa, however, is book has little to do. It some extent the sequence of this intended to illustrate to exploration in that great wilderness of stony and inhospitable altitudes which lie far beyond Lhasa, and may serve incidentally as a small tribute to the many great achievements. Sibikoff, Mr. The Coloured Potala, Map of. End of volume. Glacial G. Bartholomew Tibet, From of Tibet. A Typical J. Peak of South Eastern Tibet From D'Anville's. Temple where Hue sojourned The Potala in the Seventeenth Century W.
Rockhill A. Carey CLE " Captain H. Typical Tibetan Valley Dr. SvenHedin Colonel Bower G. Bonvalot St. George Littledale Major C. Ryder, D. Tibet is so lofty, so isolated, so irresponsive to outside influences, has held herself so far apart the meddling interference of the busy, from commercial world, as to provoke the enterprise of generations of speculative geographers, who, accepting " omne igno- tum pro magnifico," have startled the world with small instalments of truth surrounded by wide embroideries of decorative fancy.
It was said that in the extreme northwest of India there existed a race of enormous ants, fierce and powerful, whose peculiar mission in life was the digging out of gold.
