Few people who read Captain Kingdon-Ward's delightful books fon. travel in darkest Asia, are aware that he was once a massier at the Thomas Hanbury. School for Boys. 'That was round about 1911 and I remember that he took part inva controversy. casted "by the Roo Revolution and the issue of hey of, the "North China' over
Throne or Republic, in a manner! which east one tear of the Tromber "gratefully. T- believe then sia will. ever re-
Captain Kingdon-Ward's first taste of exploration was the journey home fre made at the end of his tive with the Thomas, Hanbury, up. the Yangtze and across by Bhamo and Rangoon, He ix just starting out again. and aloe il make for the Hina: layman passes into. an unexplored Tibet, the River Gorge country, amid colossal, mountain peaks possibly higher than Everest, of Shieh nothing whatever is known. article in the Standard" I take the fole country, betvreen Lhasa and] the borderland of Chins, has remain completely unexplored, S0 Tong sought. the holy city, it war gotten: But there was "another ud perhaps a better reason for nes: leet. Tt has until lately been unappretchable. A wide belt of foothill, cow fered. with impenetrable jungle, shuts off the plains from the promised land populated pote. the. the Burnin frontier, "Haw and Nung lurk across the pat Aocite, What, shall we dnd?
Or, rather, what shall we" desk?
Ten sears ago, with Lord Camdor
the "ladle of "the gorge. sarigue. Valley. ad finally."
the course of that Searing journey tro teached the edge of the eredtant ita on the esanateonticr nap" thetTndin Etaite—a Olan age Captain Kingdon-Ward make one remark about Tibet which amazed me. He says it is largen han France, Germany, Spain and Portugal combined. How people have ever realised that?
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