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This book is about a journey that the author took 1896, which took him from India across Tibet to China. As with travelogues written in this age, there are descriptions of every thing that the author saw, heard and experienced while travelling. There are notices on the people, anecdotes and accounts of their daily life, customs, folklore, local politics, geographical and metrological readings, personal experiences, interactions with friendly, and hostile, natives, etc. There are 79 photographs in this book, which was first published in 1898