Simla, July 6,
ions, both: of them t0 be. corsied from here two exploratory expedi-week there are to commence
Jout by individual scientists, one a Women and the other a man. Mademoiselle Lafugie, a tireless jand talented French ' artist who has already made two "trips into Tibet, is starting on a lonely Journey into Tibetan Turkestan, against which she has been warned; whilst Professor Tuecl, a distinguabed oriental from' Italy, is launching out to resume his archaeological and fepigraphical researches in Ladak jand Western Tibet, a few' mules, and a handful "of Mile, Lafugie is taking a pony,
coolies and, crossing the Sutlej River at Wangtoo, will make her she hopes to pay famous Buddhist then hopes to Journey on to Tabo, provided the anticipated difficulties. are not insurmountable, and after pai pictures of religious and social life fin this outpost of Tibet, intends making her way to Ki where, abandoning her pony and mules, she will proceed on foot over. the [glacial Pararung La Pass, 18,600 feet high. 1f all goes well, she will pick up yaks for both riding and transport at Narbu Somba and ultimately reach the Tagaling "La Pass where hot sulphur springs fare said to pour out of the glaciers, ultimately reaching Leb, her des tination, from which she'will return to India through Kashmir, Mile. Lafugie expects that it will take her forty days to cover the 1500 miles between Simla and Leh, Jand most of the time she will be lone in a country of whose langulage she knows practically nothing land the inhabitants of which know not a word of hers, Sleeping in a. small double tent, she will have to fend for herself in a hundred ways, being her own guide through cot try which is still almost uncharted, In fact, the Government of India Survey' Department have asked Ther to keep a careful note of the ames of many places whose names are now uncertain, and many have been the good wishes from both officials and non-offals who have helped her prepare what is described as "a bold venture, chosen land planned with the air of tourist arranging a walking tour in Europe.
Professor Guisoppe, on the other hand, intends to. make his trip mainly on foot, and believes it will fake him about three months. He will first visit those regions. who Buddhism is behaved" to have originated and where valuable manuscripts are to be obtained. Then "he. will, according "to. the results "and ' discoveries of his. investigations there, proceed fur ther into Tibet, Dr. Tucei_is a world authority on Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and other ancient languages and it is expected that within a few months his new work will be published Ieiving in English for the first the remarkable manuscripts covered during his La Tibet and which prove, other things, that Indi engaged in maritime pursuits, siderable help in making his' pla for the present trip has been. jeeived from the Government of india, to whom the Professor accords gracious acknowledgements—Reuter.
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