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Title: The Unveiling of Lhasa

Author: Edmund Candler

Release date: August 6, 2010 [eBook #33359]

Language: English

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Frontispiece.
A Cold Day in Tibet.

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.