The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-24
EXPLORER EVADES SPIES AND
FINDS COUNTRY NEVER
CROSSED BEFORE.
IN DISGUISE OF A NATIVE.
Burns All European Clothes and Poses
as Driver of Animals, Painting Skin
Color of Ladakhi.
FINDS RIVER WRONGLY MARKED.

! LONDON, Sept. IA special dis
| patch from Simla, British India, says
that by deceiving the TibetanS regard
ing his intentions, Sven Updin, the
Swedish explorer, who has just arrived
there after extended explorations in
Tibet, was enabled to cyadc the Tibetan
spies when he started in December 1901.
\ short distanc from Karakoram pass
he turned due east and in a continuous
fall of snow and amid great hardships
lie reached Aksai Chin lake in January.
From that on the snow Ohlitcrated the
routes and the caravan was in terrible
straits.
Some of the party suffered from frost
bites and DR.. Hcdin's feet were frozen
Ii became necessary to Kill off their hu,h
of sheep for food. Eventually, however,
they reached Shcmenlso. More friend
~ nomads resupplied him with animals
and a twenty days march east and
southeast, passing Lem Chang lake,
brought the explorers To point whore
the plunge INTO the UuhuyWu had To DC
made.
Used Disguise to Pass.
Ai'C- burning their European CLOTHES
and everything indicate their national
lty and hiding their money and in~i.u-
nicnts in rice bags, Dr. lirdm adopted
disguise of Il common nlukhi daily
painting his hands and face Il dark color
and pretending to be the driver of ami
mails. When Wanderin- giUcS met them,
hairm, Il Trustworthy M.u familiar with
Tibet, was posing us the head ut the
caravan, Thus they travelled without
discovery for two months in a furious
gale through an unknown tract cudinl,
ut Tongsto.
From March S they trGvorzcd the
northern edge of a great tract betwcca
attitudes 80 and 81, stretching from his
old route to the Brahmaputra which was
the great object of his journey. The cN-
plorers then marched due south. crossing
several ranges running east and west and
passing the enormous Ice mountain,
known as the Shakangsham, on the east,
from which point flowed ii big river.
Thence they crossed I.andaugo pass
into an open valley and Bougda province,
which no European had ever entered, lay
before them. Here precautions were r..
doubled, and the explorers had several
narrow escapes from discovery by the
Watchlul Tibetans.
Finds Great Salt Lake.
DR.. Hedin discovered Lake Chunitso
and followed its west shore for whole
day, ANA first heard Of the great salt
lake of Eabia Tsakha. which is n source
of considerable wealth 10 the govern.
meut, the salt exports.
Two more ranges were crossed AMI
an open plain was reached which WAS
bounded on the south by mountain
range 1000 miles long, stretching east
ami west, the graudcst physical feature
north of the Brlhmapuira valley. Snow
ana glaciers everywhere bounded the
horizon.
Or. IIcdin was rewarded hy diSrov-
cring the continuity of this chain, which
no explorer hitherto had approached
from the north. He crossed the range
eight times at various points, naming
il originally the Niurhan TangIa.
River Wrongly Marked
The success with which lac had met in
his explorations stimulated hm tp at
tempt the solution ui the problem of the
course Of the tharta ISanpo. a biz
tributary of the Brahmapulra. lie found
that its course has brrn wrongly marked
on the maps, and that it is fed from huge
SNOW peaks, "a lake being formed from
whence tnc river reached the Brulmu.
putra.
This was Sven lloGin's third Journey
of exploration in Thbet. His suffering,
and discoveries in the early ones. urar.
tically the first revelations of the mN,-
tcriuus realm of the Dalai Lama, ar1
well known To the public. The cNprdi.
ton now ending WIS undertaken in De-.
tohcr, 1909. He entered by way of kash-
gar despite English Official opposition
and crossed the great White desert, al
Ak,a shln virgin field for aiyentur
erS.
Adviccs from him last January. whom
he was at Nguzuu T~u, making for Shi-
gatsc, 40 miles west of Lhassa, told of
the loss of his entire equipments only his
maps ana not" books being saved The
journey was one of Irightful rigor The
thcatcr was plateau 1000 feet higher
than the snow crowned summit of Mort
Blanc. Ills ponies We're literally frozen
to death.
He reported, however, the location of
many new lakes, rivers and mountains.
Some of the lakr- we're fresh, some salt.
lie found man! important gold fields.
He says the country is of extraordinary
mineral richness Some proSpuctorS 70
out from Lha~st collect nuggets and re-.
tire rapidly from Dun deadly cold
In July a portion of lIedin'S party
emerged into India and there was great
alarm for his safety until It was oN-
planned that these were sick men he had
sent ON ahead will. he finished his pro-
gramme.