Im Original: „Then only was I so fortunate as to behold this mountain land, then only did I gain the attainment of a wish, that had been vividly present in my mind for years, I should rather say, from my earliest youth […].“ und „[…] neither the seductive love of adventures […] nor was it the ambitious passion to shine, nor was it even the bare curiosity to wish to lift up the veil, which had hitherto shrouded these lands; – no, what most profoundly stimulated us was the wish to explore and investigate in a scientific manner that land.” Aus Robert Schlagintweit, „Vortragsmanuskripte“ [„Lecture Manuscripts“] für seine „English lectures on High Asia delivered during the years 1868 and 1869 in various towns of the United States of America“, in zwei Bänden, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), München, Schlagintweitiana, V.2.2.1, Seite 21 und 18.