Excerpt from Southern Tibet, Discoveries in Former Times Compared With My Own Researches in 1906-08, Vol. 1: Lake Manasarovar and the Sources of the Great Indian Rivers; From the Remotest Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century I hope the public will not be too critical in respect of the treatment of the language. Contrary to what was formerly the case when I had my Swedish manu script translated, I have now written out the text direct in English, a procedure which, it is true, has been facilitated owing to the reason that most of the sources of its historical chapters are of English origin. Yet the treatment of the language cannot under such circumstances be distinguished by any lofty flight or beauty. On the contrary, it is very plain and bearing straightway on facts. In order to get the text cleansed from dim or erroneous expressions, I have had the manuscript gone over and corrected by two Englishmen living in Stockholm. I am also indebted to these gentlemen for their, I hope, careful revising of the proofs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.