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Historical books online
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by Captain William Gill R. E. [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*''Mandalay to Momien : A Narrative of the Two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne'' by John Anderson 1876. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924083648836 Archive.org version], also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059B74 British Library Digital Collection] with rotatable images.
*[https://archive.org/details/avariedlifearec00gordgoog ''A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902''] by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Appointed to the Indian Army Indian Staff Corps 1862, appointed to the Kashgar Mission in 1873.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023493517 ''The Roof of the World : being a narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir''] by Lieutenant-Colonel T E Gordon, Honorary Aide-De-Camp to the Viceroy of India, lately attached to the Special Mission to Kashghar 1876 Archive.org. Includes Kashghar.
*''Across Chrysê, being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the South China border lands from Canton to Mandalay'' by Archibald R Colquhoun, Executive Engineer, Indian Public Works. [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbeing01colq Volume I] 3rd edition 1883 (probably first published also 1883), [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbein02colqgoog Volume II] 1883 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003506A Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035070 Volume II ] 1883 British Library Digital Collection with rotatable images. Chryse (Chrysê) is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies (Wikipedia)
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E37A ''Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China ... with account of exploration-survey by H. S. Hallett. Accompanied by surveys, vocabularies and appendices''] by Archibald R Colquhoun 1888
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