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English: Identifier: transhimalayadis02hedi
Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952 Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he Garpun wasfriendly disposed towards me ; he was the most powerfulman in western Tibet, and could still throw open all doorsfor me, if he dared and was willing to do so. I was, indeed, pleased and thankful for the resultswhich I had already been able to secure. Besides manyother problems that had been solved, I had crossed theTrans-Himalaya by five passes, namely, the Sela-la, Chang-la-Pod-la, Angden-la, Tseti-lachen-la, and Jukti-la, of whichthe first four had been entirely unknown. But betweenthe Angden-la and the Tseti-lachen-la I had been obligedto leave a gap of quite 330 miles in the exploration of theTrans-Himalaya. Of this region nothing was known butthe summits Ryder had seen from his route, and which heand Wood had measured by observation. We also pos-sessed some uncertain statements of Nain Sings journeyin 1873, but his route lay to the north of the blank patch,and this blank represented an area of 5300 square miles.I could not return home without having done all that was Text Appearing After Image: Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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