From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nor

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The favourable reception accorded two years ago to Travels in Mongolia, and the interest which still attaches to the countries of Central Asia induce me to publish an English version of Colonel Prejevalsky's travels to Lob-nor, the more readily that no European hitherto has visited it in modem times.<br><br>That Colonel Prejevalsky's narrative is so brief is accounted for by the great physical prostration from which its author has been suffering, the effect of hardship and exposure in desert and swamp, necessitating his giving up for the time all literary work and taking complete rest at his estate in the government of Smolensk.