Innermost Asia ¹

Abstract

PROMPTED more by the love of sport than by any scientific aspiration, Mr. Cobbold undertook an adventurous (and in many respects an instructive) journey from India into the regions of High Asia; and regarded as a record of sport and adventure, he has told his tale so well that he is likely to produce an embarrassing demand on the Indian Foreign Department for leave to follow in his footsteps. He seems to have had no special difficulty in obtaining permission to visit the Pamirs, in spite of the well known reluctance of the Indian Government to entertain the risk of “complications” involved in the casual collisions of British and Russian officers on the far frontier. Indeed, he naturally finds it difficult to understand why so many more obstacles were placed in the way of his return than of his visit to the Pamirs.