February 28th, he arrived at Alexandria, in Egypt. In March, he took passage in a Syrian ship to Cyprus, thence to Sidon and Beyrut, and thence on another raft by way of Tripolis he arrived in Latakia. In April, at the beginning, he left on foot for Aleppo, where he arrived on the 13th of that month. On May 19th, he left Aleppo, again on foot, and travelled by way of Orfa, Mardin, Mosul, arriving on July 22d at Baghdad. September 4th, he left Baghdad, travelling on horseback through Kermanshah and Hamadan, reaching on October 14th Teheran. 1821, March 1st, left Teheran, and arrived April 18th at Meshed, in Khorassan, whence, owing to rumours of war, he started on October 20th, and reached Bokhara on November 18th. November 23d, he left Bokhara, and, travelling viâ Balkh, Kulum, and the Bamian Pass, arrived 1822, January 6th, at Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. January 19th, he left Kabul. January 20th, at Daka, met Generals Allard and Ventura, French officers in the service of Ranjit Singh. March 12th, he arrived at Lahore. March 23d, he started viâ Amritsir and Jamu, and on April 14th arrived at Kashmir. May 19th, he left Kashmir, and on June 9th arrived at Leh, the capital of Ladak. July 3d, he left Leh on a return journey to Kashmir. On July 16th, he met Mr. Moorcroft on the banks of the river Himbabs, in the Dras Valley, and retraced his steps towards Leh with Mr. Moorcroft. On August 26th, he reached Leh a second time. At the end of September Moorcroft returned to Kashmir, and Csoma remained at Leh with Mr. Trebeck, whom he afterwards accompanied to Srinaggur, where they arrived on November 26th, and Csoma joined Moorcroft and remained with him for five months and six days. 1823, May 22d, he took leave of Moorcroft in Kashmir, and on June 1st he arrived at Leh for the third time. June 17th, he left Leh, and On June 26th, he arrived at the Monastery of Yangla, in the province of Zanskar, where he spent sixteen months. This is the place where, as we shall find more fully described later on, Csoma laid the foundation of his acquaintance with the language and literature of Tibet; it was here that he resided, being confined (with the Lama, his teacher, and an attendant) to an apartment nine feet square. For more than four months they were precluded from stirring out by the state of the weather. Here he read from morning till night, sitting enveloped in a sheep-skin cloak, with his arms folded, and without a fire. After dark he was without a light; the ground forming his bed, and the walls of the building his protection against the rigours of the climate. He was exposed here to “privations such as have been seldom endured” without complaining. 1824, October 22d, he left Yangla, and on November 20th arrived at Sabathú.