A FAMOUS TRAVELLER. Dr Sven Heel in, the great Swedish traveller, has onco more returned from his journeys in Tibet, and the London “Times” has published some most interesting details concerning them. “For. the past two years Dr. Hedin has been onco more engaged, with little intermission, in the task of penetrating into the unknown- recesses of Tibet. The first year's exploration, of which the results were made known last year, resulted in many valuable additions to our knowledge of Central Asian geography, and, in particular, to the discovery of the true sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus. In December last, as ho.now informs us, Dr Hedin' started from Leh, in Kashmir, on a second journey, which for romantic interest, for the magnitude of the hardships overcome, as well as for the extent of its
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2370, 10 December 1908, Page 4
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135Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2370, 10 December 1908, Page 4
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