The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
N|[L ENTER | HASA
William Jameson Reid Reveals
His Plans.
HAS STUDIED FAILURES
And He Thinks He Has a
Scheme that Will Work.
las STUDIED FAILURES

New York, March 3o.-William Jameson
Reid in the Herald says:
There has been a constantly growing nj
terest in recent years in the repeated at
tempts which have been made by Ameri-
can and European explorers, especially
by Henry Savage Lander, TO enter the
wild Businesses Of the repellent and lama
ridden land of Thibet, with its jealousy
guarded city of L'hassa, a mystical spot
that has ever f1oated with will O. the wisp
persistency just out Of the reach of the
most redoubtable efforts to clutch it with
in the grasp of actually. Centuries of re-
or diminished zeal, which have only been
whetted to a keener determination by a
series Of untruthful and disastrous fail
ureS
It is not with an exalted sense of my
own penetratiVe powers over those who
have gone before that 1 have announced
my intention during the coming year to
strive to penetrate the country to L hasa
and enter the sacred city itself, but with a
and accurate practical knowledge that
have been gained from experience in the
field which 1t is my intention 10 pene-
trate.
The last twenty-five years have been re-
markedly prolific in attempts to penetrate
Tibet 10 Lhassa, but the plan OF opera
tons has, in most cases. swerved very lit
tie from the beaten path OF explora ton /:
that Of essaying by means Of large expe-
diuons, peacefully If possible. if not by
more vigorous means. TO push into the
country openly and without attempt at
concealment Of any sort BY the sheer
weight of numbers, and a firm belief in
the success that must appertain to the
right of civilization over brutal and mar
row minded barbayiSm.
OF the many attempts already made the
most successful is that Of recent date-the
creditable and praiseworthy essay OF Hen
~ Savage Landor who has only just re-
turned 10 civilization. after the nearest
approach 10 the sacred city of L'hassa
that has yet been made, and VINO has
added materially 10 our knowledge of sci
entifc facts concerning Tibet. Yet. as
detailed in his own narrative. there IS
little. or. in fact, absolutely nothing, to
show that in his expedition branched out
in and direction from those beaten paths
that had been followed by those who had
gone before. save that he adopted a native
guise, which, as subsequent events proved
was worse than useless. and brought down
upon his head hostility and the anger OF
The DsrYya r,rfaS-S
Mr.. Lander did not pjrofit by the expe-
rience OF those explorers who have sought
20 perform the same feat for the last hun
dred years. but ne tad implicit faith in
the powers belonging to a large expedition.
This. Immediately he had penetrated into
the country. vas sufacien; TO make known
the fact OF his approach and from she out
set heap in his path obstacles that events
proved could not be lightly brushed aside
IN the second place. ne very naturally
fell into that common erro. OF being
weaned from the knowledge OF facts by
the Turing apparltion OF shortness OF dis
tance and the supposed oelerity q con-
summation. L hasa. situated in the south
ern portion OF Tibet and within near sp-
preach OF the northern border OF India.