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EXPLORATION IN TIBET.

GENERAL DOWER'S WORK.

The following interesting letter appears in The Times :--

1-have lately seen several references in the pipers to the Central Asian travels of General Bower-now commanding the Abor Expedition-but none specially mentioning his Temarkable. Tibetan exploration in 1899, which was his most-important piece- work in that respect; and I should like with your permission to bring it further to notice in the colunins of The Times.

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Bower (then a captain in the 17th Bengal Cavalry), organized his expedition at Leh, the chief town of Ladak, a province of Kashmir, and crossed the Ladak-Tibet frontier by the Lanak-La Pass (about 19,0xoft, high and some 120 miles E.NA. of Ich), accompanied by Dr. V. G. Thorold, of the Indina Medi cal Service, in the beginning of July, 1891. Thence he proceeded in a generally E.S.E. direction across the great unknown plateau of Central Tibet, his party-enduring severe, hardships in a climate where it is constantly where. a snowing even in summer, and

I strong, freezing wind sweeps almost without cessation over the most elevated tract of country in the world (being nowhere under 15,000ft.). Most of bis transport mules and ponies died in crossing this howling wilder ness. The guides deserted after a few marches from the frontier, so that--no more people being met with-lower bad to find his own way through an unknown land. When he ultimately came across nomads, he and his companion were obliged to disguise themselves as Mathomedan merchants in order to obtain any supplies to replenish their nearly exhausted stock; since nothing I would have induced the people (through fear of Lhasa officialdo) to give them anything if they had known the to be Europeans. For many days they depended chiefly on their rifles for food, antelope, yak, and kyang (wild ass of Tibet) being fortunately often met with. Near the Churgat Cho Lake, about 230 miles north-west of Lhasa, the explorer was brought to a halt for over a month by officials from that place, who ordered him back by the way he had come. But Bower absolutely refused to do this; go on he would whatever happened, and at length, seeing that unless they killed him of were prepared to hold him prisoner for an indefinite period nothing could sara him from his purpose, they chose the line of least resistance or least trouble to themselves, and granted him permission (with an escort) to continue on his way to China, but by a more northerly route, Further (as he could not move without them) they were, obliged to give him transport animals and supplies.

After much more hardship owing to the increasing cold, Bower entered China proper near Batang in January, 1892, 1,200 miles as the crow flies from the Lanak-La Pass, of which 700 to 800 miles were over the hitherto unexplored "Chang," or high plateau of Central Tibet.

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1901 1910

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