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ADVENTURES IN TIBET.
CHAPTER I.
EASTWARD BOUND.
Far away to the East, on the other side of the mountains
and the deserts, there hes, hidden in the heart of the earth’s
greatest continent, a region wliich even at this late period
of time has been visited by only a few travellers. And
yet there are associated with that distant region a greater
number of puzzling and unsolved problems than are to be
found in perhaps any other part of the earth. Forty years
ago the inquirer who sought information with regard to the
heart of Asia had to have recourse to Marco Polo, the
adventurous merchant of Venice, who, more than six
hundred years ago, travelled across the continent, and left a
description of his journey, which, meagre though it is, never-
theless constitutes an enduring monument of human enter-
prise. When, towards the end of the ’70’s, a new era
dawned in the history of geographical discovery, the centre
of Asia could no longer escape the attention of Europeans.
The great Russian traveller, Przhevalsky, was the first
who, in modern times, seriously attempted to lift the veil
behind which hitherto so many secrets of the region beyond
the deserts had lain hidden.
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