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Leaving Buenos- Aires by the Spanish mail in April, 1888 "glad 

 to clear out of the fraudulent country" he returned, after protracted 

 touring in southwestern Europe, to the United States in November of 

 the same year. 



After a few month's preparation, he returned to Europe in April, 

 l sv< y, charged with making secret reports on engineering properties 

 in different continental countries; made the double-circuit of Europr ; 

 scaled, alone, the snowed-up sierras of the fastnesses of the Pyrenees 

 by the pass el portus (Sunday, April 26, 1891, and following three 

 days), and descended into the ancient little Republic of Andorra, being 

 the only American to visit this political, democratic curiosity since 

 Bayard Taylor: revisited Espana and the Latin-European states for 

 the third time: was detained by much litigation in the land of the Cid 

 (May-October): revisited Monte-Carlo for five months (November- 

 April) trying to recuperate; took a long rest among the Swiss and 

 Italian lakes: and returned home February, 1893. 



Eighteen months of travel followed reporting for foreign syndi- 

 cates on United States, Mexican, and Canadian properties, then Lodian 

 returned west for a few weeks rest. 



Leaving the Pacific coast August, 1894, he ran through the chief 

 Polynesian islands: traveled seven months in Australia (October-May); 

 then made a direct cut north again, via the great barrier reef, (pilot- 

 age 1,200 miles, the lowest ocean pilotage extant) and New Guinea to 

 Northern Hindustan. 



In September, 1895, he was engaged by the mandarin Wu, of 

 Tibet, (then in Bengal) to proceed to that country, and report on a 

 project for the sanitary canalization of the capital Lasa; crossed the 

 Himalayas with the mandarin's entourage; and reached Lasa without 

 incident the 29th of September. 



It is at this juQ3tur3.w3 alv3rt t3 th3 piotD of L^limin semi-man- 

 darin costume. The kue (Tibetan, koza) was all composed of his own 

 hair, which, after being shaved off, with the exception of a small tuft 

 left on the top of the head, was perfectly made up the remnants be- 

 ing about three inches long into a slim kue about two feet long, and, 

 with the aid of a few strings of silk, was "dissimulated" into the tuft 

 left on the head. This tuft, or remnant, itself formed, when the 

 made-up kue was off, a comical little pigtail. 



A copy of a New York technical monthly, T/te American Engineer, 

 is held in the hand: but Lodian was never connected with the journal. 

 Probably that publication, and Locomotive Engineering, are the only 

 two American technical journals to have ever seen the light of Lasa. 



Questioned on returning to Europe, at his permanent residence 

 on the avenue de I'ope'ra, Paris, concerning a book called ' 'Forbidden 

 Fruit" (or something like that) by one Landor, who tried to get near 

 Tibet, Lodian replied he had never read it but had read extracts 

 therefrom, and thought the book (judging from the excerpts) must be 



