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viii PREFACE.
such a contingency with anything hke equanimity. But I am bound
to admit, that with me freedom goes before friendship, and I should
be untrue to myself were I not to testify thus publicly my sympathy
with the Tibetans.
This book has, however, nothing whatever to do with politics. It is
simply the narrative of my own journeys in that lofty region where the
wild yak and the kulan browse amid the hailstorms and the driving
sleets of summer. And if it teach no other lesson, it will perhaps
serve to remind the reader of the difference that exists between the
life of activity spent among the powers of Nature and the sedentary
and stationary life of the great city.
SVEN HEDIN.
Stockholm^
2oth September, 1904.
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