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HOW DR.SEVEN HEDIN BRAVEDATHRAWFUL COLDNESS OF THE THÍBETEN TABLELAND..

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As everyone knows, the road to Lhassa from the 100h was for years prior to Colonel Younghusband's advance in 150j, closed to Europiane Na ere could cross the Thibet franties, even, teal way let alone penetrate for any distance toward the Forbidden Chy. For the armed guards of the Dalai Lama, held the passes, and jentuniky scrucnited all comers, Less perchance one of them might be a white man in disguise, No such precautions, how ever, are taken as regnids access to the country scrow the northern frantiers. And for ibis seemingly. very sufficient reason. It was

deemed impossible for by traveller, no matter how daring, or how well equipped he might be, lo penetrate into the country from that direc tion, Death from starvation and cold, it was imagined, would inevitably be the partlog of any person rash enough to attempt it.

Nor was this belief ill-founded, The south ern and sellled portion of "Thibet, wherein is Lhasen, is of all inhabited countries in the world, perhaps the most savage, bleak, and de aslate. Its valleys, even are higher than the summit of Mont Blanc. The mountain chalas, with which it is everywhere intersected, are formed of some of the loftiest"paaks on the sur. face of the globe. While the passes that cross them, and lead from valley to valley, ore 18,000 to 20,000 ft, above the level of the se

AN UNINHABITED. WILDERNESS

stao, and onb

of his followers,

The little

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"and equipped, and

favoured them, to? to their campin They rode rapidly, and soon contact with the nomads, miserable beings, who live by hunting the wild yaks, and move from place to place after the game upon which they subsist, precisely as do the bears and the wolves. Men, women, and children were alike expressibly filthy, and owned nothing save their battered felt tents, their antiquated wea pons, a few cooking pou, and the miserable skins that covered them

Like most savages and somi-savages, they crinced but little curiosity. Even the sudden advant amongst them of the three strangers from out of the alphabited and mysterious north left them.unmoved.

plained, and

severe Headaches and

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thin-and-pale, my appetite was bad, cold perspirations used is break out all over me at night. For six years this state of things went on, making my life a misery, Doctor afer, doctor treated me, as have said, and I tried many different kinds of medicines, but nothing gave me any-lasting relief; it seemed as if I would never get well, again. I became so bad that at last I want up-country for a change of climate on the doctors advice, but after remaining there for some time I found myself no better and „STOPPED. BY-SQLDIERS. A

naturned to Colombo just as bad as ever, fort Not so, however, the more civilised settled It was a friend who advised me to try Dr. Thibetans, whom they encountered as they Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, As all drew nearer to the sacred city. There, being the other medicines had falled I had little or endowed with more intelligenze than the no faith in these Pills, but still my friend nomads, realised at once that Hedin and his persuaded me to give them a trial, Alter the companions could not have crossed the unin- firat bottle I felt a decided change for the DONGKONG IGE GUMO

THE COMPANY, habited regions by themselves, and all sorts of better; tia, headaches wore loss severe; COL STORAGE available at LAST Point, inconvenient questions began to be asked con- giddiness, which had been a frequent source Stores will be upon at to all." and 4" RH, cerning the whereabouts of the rest of their of discomfort, ceased to trombis ma; the palos daily Sunday excealed, to receiv e and

perishable goods. iny my heart seemed less frequent alad By Word of their coming must havo also been ❘ the time I had fiolabed six bottles of Dr. Wil | sent on to Lhasa, for within a comparatively, liams' link Pills the heart pale and headaches short while after they had first untered the were quite gone, I could eat as well as over I inbabited_région, they were forcibly stopped had done in my life, the cold perspirations had by a body of Thibetan oldiery, whose chief censed completely and I enjoyed good sound asserted, and probably truly, that he was acting refreshing sleep'every night. Since then I have under the orders of the Dalai Lama,

kept quite well, am able to do my daily work without fatigue, and always feel in the best of spirita. I am very thankful for my, wondegui core."

company.

But this region, wild and inhospitable though itis, is a terrestrial paradise when compared with the unspeakable desolation of Northern Thibet. Here are hundreds of thousands of

This chief, Kamba Bombo, by name, was square miles of country without a singla. Inha most imponant personage, who came to Hedin's bitant. No one lives there, because no one content gorycuusly anayed in yellow silk, plus live there., 113 general character is that of a Mongolian boots of green velvet, and a crimson land oily recently emerged from beneath a velvet cloak. His arders were linief and to the glacial ice cap. If the interior ice of Green-point: None of the three strangers was to land, which at present covers that country with advance another step towards Lhasa, under n shield two miles and more in thickness, could pensity of being summarily decapitated then he removed, then would Greenland, geologists and there. He added, that if he allowed them say, present most of the physical features now to go on, he would less his own life. It existent in Northern Thibet.

doesn't matter the least w so you are, or where you come from: Your actions are in the highest degree suspicious. You have come in by a back road, and must just go back the way you came."

Most, but not all! There would be the same Larrenness, the same quaking quagmires, snow fields of unknown extent, bogs that are seem ingly, bottomless, and an archipelago of frozen salt lakes. But the altitude would be'wanting.. From this verdict, backe 1 by a powerful dia "And it is the altitude, with its natural concomi-play of force, there could be, of course, no tant, extreme cold, which renders travelling io appeal. Back they had to go to their head Northern Thibet so difficult and so dangerous, quarter camp in the mountains, and from Fancy marching for months on end through thence resume puce maic their interrupted an uninhabited wilderness 18,000 feet above journey towards Ladak, their objective on the ́ana-level, where every ource of food has to be | corthern frontiers of India.

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the form on ice. Doesn't sound very invising, does it? Yet this was precisely the thing Dr. Sven Hedin, the famous Swedish ex-

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18. THE a lule better going than at first, and there were, of course, in- habitants. But, on the other hand, most of their transport animals had succumbed, and several of the men were in a bad way. Moun-

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of the highly rarefied air of the plateau, affected THE them all to a greater or less degree, and one of 'the' camel drivers, a 'man'named Kalpet, pre-!

sently died of it.

POTATOKS TOOK A DAY TOʻRIL. He had with him an imposing caravan, the biggest, in fact, ever seen in those regions,

Others, 100, were at the point of death, and the Seventy asses carried sacks of maize. There were a number of mules and hardy little ponies, | Kad to be left behind. But of those only on specially selected for work at high altitudes or two died, the rest recovering eventually There were flocks of sheep and goats for food. But principally the explorer relied for transport | upon his camels, of which he had between eighty and ninety.

It was a goodly sight when, early on the moraing of May 17th, Sven, Hedin rode out as their bead; and commenced the ascent of the defiles that led upwards from Turkestan on to

he Great Plateau--the uninhabited and, up'

Hedin-houself was very it, and has left it on record that he pever expected to recover. fact, the expedition was about as bad a way As it was possible to conceive of.

Indeed, that its lead ever reached India a matter for marvel, for winter overtook then ere they were much more than half-way be tween Lhasse and Ladak, and what winte; means on these uplands, where even in summe

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till then, unvisited tableland of Northern Thibet. The thermometer seldom rises more than a fe MICROSCOPES, SHOOTING Yet it was a sad sight, witbal, as the gallant Swede was fain to admit to tumself. For practi- cally all the animals, nod a certain proportion of the men, were destined to leave their bones in bleach amidst the eternal solitudes they were venturing to invada,

degrees above fleeting poist, can be imagined Another man, Nohammed Tokta, died mountain sickr ess and the hardships incider tal to the man ch He was an old and truste servant, and a splendid fellow all round, so the deep gloom set led upon the survivors as the laid him to his long rest amid the lone traily amongst the clouds, Ice cold rain, mountain defiles,

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course, the sun shone. But not often. And when it was absent, as was usually the case, it was twilight at noon, while at seal twilight it was pitch dark,

Fuel was practically unobtainable, but this was not of so much account, because to cook any thing at the testific-altitudes in which they found themselves was almost a matter of impo- sibifty. The boiling point of water, which is 212 F, at sea-level, decreases as one ascends, so that at 20,000 feet the contents of one's | kettle "boil", when-o-ly comfortably warm to We hand. lo a saucepan of "boiling water, such as this, an, egg requires an hour instead of the regulation three minutes, while potatoes take an entire day to become properly soft. Usually, what liule meat was cooked was either

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At last, on Christmas day, when only a fUOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, mouthfuls of mouldly maize were left in thi saddle-bags, the caravan, now reduced to ni camels, trailed into Leh, the capital of Lad ROOM SUITE TEAKWOOD OVER

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of the pack-saddles of the camels being used for fuel at fast as the animals died,'

HEDIN MEETS SOME SAVAGES. Under these conditions "Hedin and his caravan struggled on for two months without seeing the slightest trace of human beings, while the few wild animals they met evinced very little fair for their presence, but a great deal of curiosity, thereby proving that they bad never before come into contact with a white

man.

At last, however, after-a, terrible: journey through, quagmires and sky-scraping pastes, the expedition emerged from the bigh barten lande on to those of slightly lower altitude, and showing some signs of herbage. Shortly after, they came upon signs of temporary human habitation, in the shape of embers of camp Gres, marking she resting places of wandering Thiberan nomada

At this post a halt was called, and the main caravan went,loto camp while; Svep, Hudin. made's dark far havan, disguised as a Mont Kgolian: pilgr10

Láma be had brought with

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Iractically, this was the end of the fours Thibet had been crossed in its entirety, Th yet remained, of course, for Hedin to negot the passes leading rem Ladak down. India proper. But these were child's pla| the man who had traversed those leading f the Great Plateau, and fe a few weeks the plarer, immaculate in evening dress, was be entertained at dinner by Lord Corzon at distinguished company at Government He the Viceregal Palace in Calcutta.

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