Excerpt from The Opening of Tibet For us the door was Opened, and though it has now again been locked as grimly as before, at least for many months we have lived in the very heart Of the real Tibet. The course Of our expedition lay through no deserted wastes Of sand, through which a stealthy or disguised European creeps painfully from water-hole to water hole, avoiding the least Sign Of man or human habitation, learning little and caring to learn less Of the people from whose notice he is Shrinking. We have 'moved through the only populous and politically important districts Of the country, we have made our stay in the centers Of Tibetan life, and Of necessity we were brought into immediate Contact with that. Mysterious government and religion upon which no other European transgressor into the forbidden land has been able to throw the light of personal knowledge. It has been but a passing chance, but perhaps for that very reason the more interest attaches to the simplest account Of men and places upon which the curtain has again impenetrably fallen.

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