Excerpt from L'hasa at Last Undaunted by the failure of his first endeavour to penetrate to the mysterious capital Of Tibet, Colonel Stannard had not long returned to his post in the Forestry Department of the Indian Service before he began to lay plans for another attempt. This time he took Kent fully into his confidence, and many an hour did they spend in consultation over the route, his son's questions Often reminding him of what he might have overlooked, even though the boy's suggestions were rarely worth heeding. Fully satisfied of the impracticability of finding any open door to Tibet on the southern border, Colonel Stannard decided to essay an entry from the north, and accordingly proceeded to Obtain all the information he could concerning the way through China. In this quest fortune singularly favoured him. He had a large acquaintance among the natives of India, owing in part to his genial, magnetic manner and in part to his mastery of their language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.