_Daily Chronicle_: "Mr. Landor is an artist as well as a writer, and this handsome volume is most lavishly illustrated with sketches and photographs. Apart from its intense interest as a story of stirring adventure, the book is a valuable storehouse of information on Southern Tibet and its people, and on the little known Indian district of Northern Kumaon. This is surely a record of devotion to geographical science such as no previous explorer has been able to show." [Illustration: A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR AND HIS TWO FAITHFUL SERVANTS] IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY IN TIBET CAPTURE BY THE TIBETAN AUTHORITIES IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, AND ULTIMATE RELEASE BY A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR AUTHOR OF "_COREA, OR THE LAND OF THE MORNING CALM_," "_ALONE WITH THE HAIRY AINU_," _ETC._ ALSO VARIOUS OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING THE ENQUIRY AND REPORT BY J. LARKIN, ESQ., APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA _With Two Hundred and Fifty-one Illustrations And a Map_ LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1899 _First Edition (2 Vols. 8vo), October 1898_ _New Impression (2 Vols. 8vo), November 1898_ _New Edition (1 Vol. 8vo), May 1899_ _This Edition enjoys copyright in all Countries signatory to the Berne Treaty, and is not to be imported into the United States of America._ I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY FATHER & MOTHER PREFACE IN this book I have set down the record of a journey in Tibet undertaken by me during the spring, summer and autumn of 1897. It is illustrated partly from my photographs and partly from sketches made by me on the spot. Only as regards the torture scenes have I had to draw from memory, but it will be easily conceded that their impression must be vivid enough with me. The map is made entirely from my surveys of an area of twelve thousand five hundred square miles in Tibet proper. In Chapter VI. the altitudes of such high peaks in India as Nanda Devi and others are taken from the Trigonometrical Survey, and so are the positions fixed by astronomical observations of the starting and terminating points of my surveys at the places where I entered and left Tibet. In the orthography of geographical names I have adopted the course advised by the Royal Geographical Society--viz., to give the names their true sound as they are locally pronounced, and I have made no exception even for the grand and poetic "Himahlya" which is in English usually distorted into the unmusical and unromantic word "Himalayas." I submit with all deference the following geographical results of my expedition: The solution of the uncertainty regarding the division of the Mansarowar and Rakstal Lakes. The ascent to so great an altitude as 22,000 feet, and the pictures of some of the great Himahlyan glaciers. The visit to and the fixing of the position of the two principal sources of the Brahmaputra, never before reached by a European. The fact that with only two men I was able to travel for so long in the most populated part of Tibet.