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Title: Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China
During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

Author: Evariste Regis Huc

Release Date: June 8, 2010 [eBook #32747]

Language: English

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TRAVELS
IN
TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHINA,
DURING THE YEARS 1844-5-6.

BY M. HUC.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY W. HAZLITT.

VOL. I.

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PREFACE.

The Pope having, about the year 1844, been pleased to establish an
Apostolic Vicariat of Mongolia, it was considered expedient, with a view
to further operations, to ascertain the nature and extent of the diocese
thus created, and MM. Gabet and Huc, two Lazarists attached to the petty
mission of Si-Wang, were accordingly deputed to collect the necessary
information. They made their way through difficulties which nothing but
religious enthusiasm in combination with French elasticity could have
overcome, to Lha-Ssa, the capital of Thibet, and in this seat of Lamanism
were becoming comfortably settled, with lively hopes and expectations of
converting the Tale-Lama into a br