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Mods. Bonvalot, whose account of his expedition to the Pamir was 

 noticed last year, is again in Central Asia, in company with Prince 

 Henry of Orleans, and wrote from Kuldja, last September, that he was 

 starting for Lob-Nor with the intention of crossing the Tsaidama and 

 going by the Mur-Usu to reach Bathang, and thence, if all went well, 

 they would go towards Yunnan and Tonquin. From later accounts 

 received from Kurla, near Lake Bagratch-Kul in Eastern Turkestan, the 

 party had been joined by M. de Decken, a Belgian missionary, from 

 Kuldja. From Lob-Nor they proposed to make for the upper Yang-tse- 

 kiang. They had already made good collections of birds and mammals. 



Major Cumberland and Lieut. Bower have been travelling towards 

 Yarkand, Maralbashi and the Pamirs. 



The Austrian traveller. Dr. J. Troll, passed last winter in Chinese 

 Turkestan and made a journey to Khotan in May last, and thence crossed 

 the Karakoram into Ladak. 



M. Dauvergne, of Srinagar, has made a remarkable journey along 

 the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush, to the Taghdumbash and Baro- 

 ghil Pass, and thence, along a hitherto unexplored path by the Gazkul, 

 or Karambar Sar, to Gakuch, on the Gilgit River. He finds that instead 

 of one lake there are two, the Gazkul and the Karambar Sar, separated 

 by a narrow rocky watershed. From the former, the Yarkhun river 

 flows and from the latter the Karambar or Ashkaman River. 



Kanjiit and Hunza have been visited by the British Political Agent, 

 Capt. Durand, and Lieut. Manners Smith. 



The Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society has been 

 awarded to Mr. A. D. Carey, C. S., for his journey through Central 

 Asia in 1886-87. 



Captain F. E. Younghusband, whose adventurous journey from 

 China via the Mustagh Pass to India was noticed in last year's address, 

 has again been exploring in the same regions. He crossed the Karako- 

 ram Pass and turning to the west explored in the neighbourhood of the 

 two Mustagh Passes. He then went northwards to the Yarkand River 

 and thence to the Taghdumbash Pamir where he met Grombtchev- 

 ski, the Russian explorer. He examined the hill country to the south 

 and the Khunjarab Pass, and then crossing the main range by the Mintaka 

 Pass, well to the east of the Baroghil, made for Hunza by way of Gircha 

 and Gulmit, and thence returned to India, via Gilgit and Kashmir. 



A new Russian map of the Pamir, on the scale of 1 : 1, 260,000 has 

 been published privately in M. Romanoff's Memoires des Goleopteres. 



Among new works on Central Asia that have appeared during the 

 year may be noted V. P. Nalivkine's Histoire du Khanate de Khokand 

 translated from the Russian by Aug. Dozen. It is illustrated with a 

 map, and contains a geographical and ethnographical introduction. 



