Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 1): Astronomical determinations of latitudes and longitudes and magnetic observations: during a scientific mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 1861)

CONTENTS.

P A E T I.
GENERAL INTRODUCTORY REPORTS.

rage.

I. Address to Sir Charles Wood, Bart., Secretary of State for India......................... 5

Historical account.—Materials collected: A. Manuscripts; B. Collections.—Dedication.

II. Itinerary, with an Appendix about the Establishment...................................... 11

A. Boiites.............................................................................. 11

I. Europe to Bombay, via Egypt................................,............. 12

II. Bombay to Madras....................................................... 12

III. Calcutta to Nainital, and Calcutta to Darjiling.............................. 14

IV. Himalaya and Central Tibet............................................... 16

V. Bengal, territories of the north-east frontier, and Hindostan.................. 19

VI. Central and Southern India................................................ 21

Vn. Western Tibet........................................................... 23

VIII. Chains of the Karakorum and Kuenluen.................................... 25

IX. Tibet and Himalaya....................................................... 26

X. Panjab to Calcutta, with a visit to Central Nepal............................ 28

XI. Panjab to Bombay, and visit to Ceylon..................................... 30

XII. Return to Europe, via Egypt.............................................. 32

Xin. Adolphe's last journeys .....................................'.............. 32

XIV. Last journeys of Adolphe's establishment................................... 33

B. Establishment: 1. Observers.......................................................... 36

2. Interpreters........................................................ 38

3. Collectors ......................................................... 40

4. Servants..................■...............•........................ 41

HI. Last Journeys and Death of our Brother Adolphe......................................... 43

I. Reports collected by Captain Henry Strachey......................................... 45

II. Information received from G. Knox, Esq., Assistant Commissioner of Kulu, and from Sir

Alexander Lawrence, Assistant Commissioner at Kangra........................ 52

HI. Information received from the "Departement Asiatique" of St. Petersburgh, through Baron

Budberg, Russian Minister at Berlin.......................................... 56

IV. Reports collected by Lieutenant Colonel H. B. Edwardes.............................. 58

IV. Transcription.............................................................................. 66

System adopted. A. Vowels. B. Diphthongs. C. Consonants. D. Phonetic Accents.—Linguistic
experiments.—Alphabet used for transcription.