The Exploration of Tibet : Its History And Particulars From 1623 to 1904
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Cap- tain Henry Strachey together with Major A. Cunning- ham and Dr. Thomas Thomson were chosen mem- bers of this Commission;. and, with the approval of our new aUy and dependent, the Maharaja Gulab Singh, overtures were made to the Tibetan authorities to meet the members and inspect and demarcate the limits of the respective territories. However, after two years had been spent in the endeavour to procure a meeting, the Chinese-Tibetan authorities declined to hold any intercourse with any Briti...sh deputies and would not permit the Commissioners to cross over into Tibetan territory. Accordingly, the three Eng- lishmen confined themselves to the protected Himala- yan states of Garhwal, Bishahr, Spiti, and Lahoul, through which they journeyed up into Ladak and penetrated thence northwards even to the Karakorums, fixing their head-quarters at Leh. Although no poli- tical work was accomplished, Dr. Thomson devoted 138 THE EXPLORATION OF TIBET.
himself most successfully to exploring the botany of the sub-Himalayan and Tibetan plateau zones so far as these were accessible; Major Cunningham investi- gated the archaeology and ethnology of the region ; while Captain Strachey busied himself over the topo- graphy and physiography of the territory visited and of the adjacent portions of West Tibet, making several unauthorised excursions into the forbidden districts of the latter.
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Cap- tain Henry Strachey together with Major A. Cunning- ham and Dr. Thomas Thomson were chosen mem- bers of this Commission;. and, with the approval of our new aUy and dependent, the Maharaja Gulab Singh, overtures were made to the Tibetan authorities to meet the members and inspect and demarcate the limits of the respective territories. However, after two years had been spent in the endeavour to procure a meeting, the Chinese-Tibetan authorities declined to hold any intercourse with any Briti...sh deputies and would not permit the Commissioners to cross over into Tibetan territory. Accordingly, the three Eng- lishmen confined themselves to the protected Himala- yan states of Garhwal, Bishahr, Spiti, and Lahoul, through which they journeyed up into Ladak and penetrated thence northwards even to the Karakorums, fixing their head-quarters at Leh. Although no poli- tical work was accomplished, Dr. Thomson devoted 138 THE EXPLORATION OF TIBET.
himself most successfully to exploring the botany of the sub-Himalayan and Tibetan plateau zones so far as these were accessible; Major Cunningham investi- gated the archaeology and ethnology of the region ; while Captain Strachey busied himself over the topo- graphy and physiography of the territory visited and of the adjacent portions of West Tibet, making several unauthorised excursions into the forbidden districts of the latter.
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