The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-06
MANY BURIED CITIES
FAMOUS SWEDISH EXPLORERS
STORY OF ACHIEVEMENTS
DIR. Hedin's Terrible SufYerings In
the Desert-An Awful Struggle
With Death That the Intrepid
Traveller WO9-A Remarkable
Trip Through Central Africa.

Trip Through Central Africa.
Correspondence The St. Paul Globe.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. i22.-In a simple.
earnest manner that was far more elo-
cuent than flights of rhetoric, he told
the story that follows while seated in
his study on the third floor of a house
| in the Nora Observation-Disclosures. He
is thirty-two years" Of age, yet he has
made three journeys OF exploration in
Asia. ISL
I'm the summer of 1S93," began DR..
Hedin, in response to a suggestion that
he tell the story of; his recent journey
from the beginning, II started for Asia,
first, to study the glaciers in the noun
tains on the eastern side of the Pamirs
second, to search for the old Lop-Nor
lake, and thus to settle the controversy
between Prshewalsky and RichthofenI
third, to explore the Thibetan plateaux
from the point Of view of physical
geography; fourth, to cross Asia from
west to east The fund for the expedi-
ton was subscribed by the king and
Emanuel Nobel, of st. Petersburg, and
some other Swedes, and amounted to
10000 Swedish crowns.
81 started on my journey on Oct. 16,
1893, and proceeded via st. Petersburg
and Moscow to Orenburg, where
bought tarantass and hired five
horses, and with this equipage cross
ed the Kirghiz steppes to Tashkent,
changing horses at each Of the ninety
four stations, and covering the 1000
kilC metres in nineteen days. I reach
ed Margelan, the capital of Ferghana
in February, and on the 22d of that
month started out for KaShgar. It was
the worst season of the year for cross
ing the Pamirs, for the snowfall on
those mountains is, heaviest in Feb
ruary and March, and the danger to
caravans is very great.
Across the AItai Range.
at took me five days to cross the
Altai range, proceeding south over Ten
giS-Bai pass, the height Of which is
$3.50 metres. In six days we reached
the Kizil-Art pass, in the Trans-Altal
range, and crossed it safely 1t is A.
620 feet high. From Kizil-Art I travel
ed to the great salt lake of Karakul. I
wanted to measure its depth, which
nobody has yet done. I believe it to be
very deep. 1 was very successful, for
the lake was frozen, over, and we were
dl]lG W move over Tie surface, SO lndI
1 could select places for my sounding
experiments. The deepest place 1
found was 900 feet .(2301a metres). Then
on to Murgab, where I spent twenty
Gays with the Russian garrison; then
to Lake Rangkul, which 1 also sounded
Crossing the Djugatai pass in the
Sarik-Kol range, 1 entered Chinese ter
1itory. The Chinese commander at Bu-
lun-Ku1 was very unpleasant. He gave
orders that no one was to trade with
me or give me fodder for my horses.
At last, however, / persuaded him to
give me permission to proceed south to
Mus-tag-ata mountain. I wanted to
climb it. 1t is $4,000 feet high. During
that year I made three different at
tempts to get to the top, but the highe st
point 1 reached was 10000 feet. On
each occasion the snow drove us back
/ IN June I returned to Mus ag-ata
and spent the whole summer in camp
there studying the glaciers. II made
typographical maps of fourteen glaciers
Then l prepared for the journey
through the desert.
The Backs of CameIs.
IT started from Kashgar on Feb. II
| 1895, with four Turkish servants an
| eight fine camels. I wanted to cross
| from the Gyarkand-Darya river to the
KhotanDarya river over the Takla-
Makan desert. I wanted to explore
this desert. which nobody had evel