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*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.21297/page/n7/mode/2up ''Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia (1603-1721)''] by C Wessels 1924. Archive.org, collection of the Archaeological Survey of India at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativesmissi00manngoog ''Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa''] by Clements R Markham Geographical Department, India Office. 1876 Archive.org. At least one missing page was noted. [https://archive.org/details/pts_narrativesofmiss_3721-1221 2nd version [microfilmed<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. The narrative of George Bogle is dated 1774, and Thomas Manning’s journey was in 1811-12.
:[https://archive.org/details/highroadtochinag0000telt ''The High Road to China : George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the first British expedition to Tibet''] by Kate Teltscher 2007, first published 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available to download [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/2006-high-road-to-china-george-bogle-panchen-lama-and-first-british-expedition-to-china-by-teltscher-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate under Books/Tibet/2006.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=btDwgScSlfAC&pg=PA491 "Remarks on the Religions and Social Institutions of the Bouteas, or Inhabitants of Bhoutan, from the Unpublished Journal of the Late Samuel Davis, Esq. F.R.S. &c"], ''Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II'' (1830), p. 491-517. Google Books
**Article: [http://royalasiaticsociety.org/description-of-bootan-by-samuel-davis-esq-1783/ “Description of Bootan by Samuel Davis, Esq. 1783”] Samuel Davis born 1760, became a Cadet in 1780, and was “Draftsman and Surveyor” on Samuel Turner’s mission to Bhutan and Tibet in 1783, although Davis was not able to enter Tibet. royalasiaticsociety.org