PLAN AND OBJECTS OF JOURNEY 27 
Amongst other contributions I must mention a Hus- 
qvarna double-barrelled rifle from Mr. W. Tamm, an 
express carbine from Consul-General J. W. Smitt, an 
aluminium craniometer from Professor G. Retzius, and 
an artificial horizon from Baron Nordenskiold. 
My luggage from Stockholm was not very great, as 
the bulkier part of my outfit was to be obtained in Asia. 
I had the following instruments : a prismatic circle 
(Wegener) with two horizons, two chronometers (one Frod- 
sham from the Royal Academy of Science in Stockholm, 
and one Wirt^n from the observ'^atory in flashkend), three 
French aneroids, a number of thermometers and other 
meteorological instruments from Fuess in Berlin, among 
them black-bulb insolation thermometers, psychrometers, 
spring thermometers, maximum and minimum thermo- 
meters. I also took with me a plane-table with stand, 
together with compasses, a camera by Watson, and a 
kodak by Eastman, with a complete supply of films and 
plates, chemicals, and other necessaries. Furthermore I 
took two ordinary watches, a field-glass, and a small 
aluminium telescope ; about forty pairs of glasses and 
snow -spectacles ; finally, geologists’ hammers, metre 
measures, a water-colour box, drawing materials, and 
a number of sketch-books and note-books, etc. ^ 
My weapons consisted throughout the entire journey o 
the two above-mentioned rifles, a Russian Berdan n e, 
a Swedish officer’s revolver, and half-a-dozen ot er 
revolvers, and two cases of ammunition. 
The library was naturally reduced to the^ sma est 
possible compass, and consisted only of a few impoitant 
scientific books and the Bible. On the other hand, too ^ 
with me a very complete collection of itineraries 
during the last ten years in the interior of Asia , an a so 
Russian and English survey maps of the Pamirs, maps o 
the Desert of Gobi and of Tibet. 
Thus equipped and provided with a Chinese passpor , 
I left my dear old home in Stockholm on October lOt 
1893; 9-nd on board the “Von Dobeln steamec eastwar 
towards my unknown fate. 
