Excerpt from In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan: Being the Record of Three Years ExplorationMy thanks are also due to my friend, Arnold Pike, for his genial companionship, his very valuable services in numerous ways and for his ready acquiescence in allowing me to reproduce some of his photographs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.