EXPLORATION IN TIBET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13866, 28 September 1908, Page 5

EXPLORATION IN TIBET.

i DR. SVEN HEDIN'S TRAVELS. STORY OF ADVENTURE. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyrltht Calcutta, September ?A Dr. Hedin, the great Swedish ; explorer, who has just 'returned from a two years' expedition tour in , Western Tibet, delivered a private lecture at Simla before Earl Minto (Viceroy of. India), Lord Kitchener, and a select assembly of high officials, regarding his travels. i Earl Minto, in complimenting the ■ explorer on his wonderful story of adventure and incident, declared that Dr. Hedin had divulged discoveries of great geographical value. Dr. Sven Hedin, famou. traveller !&hd. >~ explorer,- was born ir 1865, at; Stock- : .■ He journeyed through Persia and Mesopotamia during 1885 , and .1886, and . was a" - member of Kinjj Oscar's Embassy to the. late Shah of Persia Id 1890. Dr. Hedin travelled through ' Khorasan and Turkestan , > in 1890-91, and in 1893-97 went through Asia from Ozenburg,t« Pekiri, via Lop-nor and Tibet. .In ,1899-1902 .he,,- .journeyed ■>— down the- Tarim-River '%>• Lop-noi through the Gobi Desert and ■'IWet. He was en-, nobled by the King of Sweden in 1897, received the Pounder's Medal 'in>\9o2, and is the holder of a Victorian Memorial Medal - of the Royal Geographical- Society. "^' ■ . " '. ■■"■'"."-., "■