Edmund Candler

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I THE CAUSES OF THE EXPEDITION

CHAPTER II OVER THE FRONTIER

CHAPTER III THE CHUMBI VALLEY

CHAPTER IV PHARI JONG

CHAPTER V THE ROAD AND TRANSPORT

CHAPTER VI THE ACTION AT THE HOT SPRINGS

CHAPTER VII A HUMAN MISCELLANY

CHAPTER VIII THE ADVANCE OF THE MISSION OPPOSED

CHAPTER IX GYANTSE

CHAPTER X GYANTSE continued

CHAPTER XI GOSSIP ON THE ROAD TO THE FRONT

CHAPTER XII TO THE GREAT RIVER

CHAPTER XIII LHASA AND ITS VANISHED DEITY

CHAPTER XIV THE CITY AND ITS TEMPLES

CHAPTER XV THE SETTLEMENT

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THE UNVEILING OF LHASA BY EDMUND CANDLER

Author of 'A Vagabond in Asia'

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
Publisher to H.M. India Office
41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, BOND STREET, W.
1905
[All rights reserved]

THESE PAGES,
WRITTEN MOSTLY IN THE DRY COLD WIND OF TIBET,
OFTEN WHEN INK WAS FROZEN AND ONE'S HAND TOO NUMBED
TO FEEL A PEN, ARE DEDICATED TO

COLONEL HOGGE, C.B.,

AND

THE OFFICERS OF THE 23rd SIKH PIONEERS,
WHOSE GENIAL SOCIETY IS ONE OF THE MOST PLEASANT
MEMORIES OF A RIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.