('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.1	p	Ich habe die große Freude gehabt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zwei Briefe <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eurer</expan> </choice> Excellenz, kurz auf einander <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu erhalten. Beide sind von langen Daten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nehmlich vom 21<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> März und 8<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> April. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Sie kamen nicht <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p<hi rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">r</hi></hi></hi></abbr> <expan>per</expan> </choice> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ef7131d3-413d-4e03-b131-d3413d2e03d2\" corresp=\"#ccdb7afa-ad6d-4875-9b7a-faad6d58757b\" type=\"editorialNote\">„<foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">Overland Mail</foreign>“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ccdb7afa-ad6d-4875-9b7a-faad6d58757b\" corresp=\"#ef7131d3-413d-4e03-b131-d3413d2e03d2\" type=\"editorial\">Der Begriff „Overland Mail“ bezieht sich hier auf die Postroute zwischen <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Indien</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">Großbritannien</placeName> über die <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020327 http://www.geonames.org/347810\">Landenge von Suez</placeName>. Der Überlandtransport zwischen den Hafenstädten Alexandria und Suez ersetzte den längeren und gefährlichen Seeweg um das <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577\">Kap der guten Hoffnung</placeName>.</note>, sondern <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bei Schiffsgelegenheit um das <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577\">Cap der guten <lb />Hoffnung</placeName>. Hätte ich nicht so viele Beweise gehabt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der ausgezeichneten Liebe und Freundschaft <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit welcher Excellenz mich beehrt haben, das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lange Stillschweigen hätte mich glauben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lassen können, ich sei vergessen. Diese so eben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erhaltenen Briefe zeugen vom Gegentheil, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deren Inhalt spricht in denselben gütigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ausdrücken, die mir schon so lange <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geworden sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.2	p	Ich bin recht krank gewesen, und mußte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"15v\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName> auf einige Zeit verlassen, um <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich an der Küste des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020507 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Golfes von Siam</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wieder zu erholen. Die hier den Fremden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so gefährliche Krankheit „Dysentery“ oder rothe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ruhr, griff auch mich an, der nie von dieser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Plage in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">Guiana</placeName> gelitten hatte und ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />glaubte beinah, es sei mit mir vorüber. Das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Brittische Consulat hat bereits 2 seiner Beamten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>dieser</orig> <reg>diese</reg> </choice> Krankheit verlohren, und einen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dritten hatte ich nach <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">England</placeName> zurückzusenden<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um dort seine Gesundheit <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">wieder</add> </subst> zu erhalten. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Er ist noch nicht zurückgekehrt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> da er <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mehr gelitten hatte, wie man im Anfang <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />glaubte. Sie werden daher schließen, Excellenz, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß diese Krankheit Europäern eben so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gefährlich ist, wie das gelbe Fieber <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007952 https://www.geonames.org/3571219\">West Indien</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.3	p	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Im</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">In</corr> </choice> Folge meiner Krankheit und des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Verlustes im Personale, habe ich <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit der Ausnahme meiner Tour nach <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020729 https://www.geonames.org/1620954\">Anhin</placeName> nicht verlassen können. So sehr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich auch wünsche die nördlichen unbekannten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Theile <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName>s zu besuchen, so muß ich dies <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dennoch für jetzt aufgeben.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.4	p	<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\"><pb n=\"16r\" />Bangkok</placeName> ist eine wunderbare Stadt, ein <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009115 https://www.geonames.org/3164600\">Venedig</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in seinen Canälen, aber statt der schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Paläste, sieht man hier meistentheils nur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />armselige Hütten und schmutzige enge <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Straßen. Ein großer Theil der Bewohner <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>leben</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">lebt</corr> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in Häusern, welche auf Pontons von <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Bambusoideae\">Bamboo</name> gefertigt, den Ufern des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020579 https://www.geonames.org/1611244\">Menam</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entlang, errichtet sind. Da sie meisten<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />theils von Ausschnitthändlern und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Krämern bewohnt werden, welche hier ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Waaren feil bieten, so kann man sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht passlich schwimmende Basare nennen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.5	p	Der Verkehr findet deshalb meistentheils <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in Kähnen statt. Mit der Ausnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eines Theils <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName>s, welcher die Palläste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beider Könige in sich faßt und mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einer hohen Mauer umgeben ist, giebt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es nur wenige Straßen wo man zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Pferde oder im Wagen fortkommen kann<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.6	p	Als eine große Seltenheit lassen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Könige, während großen Processionen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im Bezirk der Königlichen Palläste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />statt finden, im Zuge auch eine Kalesche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"16v\" />folgen, das kleine Pferd (<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">pony</foreign>) welches sie zieht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist aber so wenig daran gewöhnt, daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es von Bedienten geführt werden muß, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und dennoch schlägt es manchmal über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die Deichsel.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.7	p	Die jetzigen Tage bilden eine hohe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />festliche Periode in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName>. Der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Austritt des alten und Eintritt des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neuen Jahres werden nun schon seit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />drei Wochen gefe<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">y</add> </subst>ert. Feuerwerke haben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />statt gefunden, welche den Pyrotechnisten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ehre machten, und die Könige wechsel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />seitig, nehmen große Processionen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu Lande und bei Wasser vor.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.8	p	Der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste König</persName> (oder wie er liebt sich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu nennen <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">the Major King</foreign>,) begab sich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kürzlich nach <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020652 https://www.geonames.org/1150954\">Ra<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">x</unclear>aburi</placeName> am Fluße <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020578 https://www.geonames.org/1608933\">Meklong</placeName> welcher sich ungefähr <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"mile\">16 <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>englische</expan> </choice> Meilen</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />westlich vom <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020579 https://www.geonames.org/1611244\">Menam</placeName> in den <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020507 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">G<subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">o</add> </subst>lf</placeName> einmündet.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.9	p	Fünfzig bis <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>sechszig</orig> <reg>sechzig</reg> </choice> Königsböte, viele <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />über hundert Fuß lang, und wie jene <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unserer Freunde in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">Guiana</placeName>, aus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einem soliden Baumstamme gemacht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />begleiteten ihn. Was aber der Procession <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"17r\" />einen besonderen Anblick gab, waren sechs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dampfböte, einige den Königen, und andere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deren Hofleuten angehörend. Diese, mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ausnahme der Maschinen, waren sämmtlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName> gebaut.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.10	p	Die Könige, hauptsächlich der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">jüngere</persName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besitzen eine so hohe Liebe für Schiffs<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />Architektur, daß man es beinah eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Manie nennen könnte. Mehrere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dampfböte sind auf der Werfte, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweite König</persName> hat so eben die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nöthigen Instructionen gegeben, ihm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein Kanonenboot in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">England</placeName> bauen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu lassen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.11	p	Dies sind die hervortretenden Züge <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im Character der zwei merkwürdigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Herrscher <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName>s – der hohe wissenschaftliche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Sinn fehlt aber, den man dem <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">ersten <lb />König</persName> zugeschrieben hat. Die schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />astronomischen Instrumente<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">Ihro Majestät die Königin</persName> von <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">England</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />durch mich, an den <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">ersten König</persName> sandte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />liegen gewiß unberührt, und folglich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"17v\" />unbenutzt, in ihren Kisten.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.12	p	<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dc1b94a0-d655-4c3c-9b94-a0d6554c3c77\" corresp=\"#f8fa3875-0389-4615-ba38-750389161503\" type=\"editorialNote\">Die Geschenke der hanseatischen <lb />Städte sind hier angekommen, aber noch <lb />nicht überreicht worden.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f8fa3875-0389-4615-ba38-750389161503\" corresp=\"#dc1b94a0-d655-4c3c-9b94-a0d6554c3c77\" type=\"editorial\">Die Hansestädte <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005351 https://www.geonames.org/2944388\">Bremen</placeName>, <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006791 https://www.geonames.org/2911298\">Hamburg</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017256 https://www.geonames.org/2875601\">Lübeck</placeName> schlossen im Oktober 1858 einen Handelsvertrag mit <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName> ab, wie kurz zuvor bereits <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">Großbritannien</placeName> sowie die <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009136 https://www.geonames.org/6252001\">Vereinigten Staaten</placeName>. Das Überreichen von Geschenken an die Könige <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName>s gehörte zu den diplomatischen Gepflogenheiten (vgl. <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/7GIHMRGQ\">Fiedler 2022</bibl>).</note> Ich zweifele <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die vom Herrn Hofmusikhändler <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003408 http://d-nb.info/gnd/135551056\">Bock</persName> ausgewählten Instrumente je <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gebraucht werden. Die Militaire<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>Musik <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Könige<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> besteht aus einfachen, dem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />halb-wilden Zustande angemessenen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Instrumenten, und ich bin überzeugt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß vom Director des Musikcorps, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bis zum Tambour, kein einziger eine Note <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />versteht. Das Gehör allein leitet ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Musik, und ob sie gleich manchmal <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />versuchen „<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">God save the Queen</foreign>“, oder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bekannte Irländische Melodien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nachzuahmen, so ist es ein Jammer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />für das Ohr. Schalmeyen, Clarinetten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Flöten aus <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Bambusoideae\">Bambus</name>rohr, außer Ton <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und Takt geblasen, und Trompeten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht besser behandelt, dies sind die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beliebten Instrumente des Siamesischen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Musik corps.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.13	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"18r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">2</fw>Ich werde dennoch die erste Gelegenheit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />benutzen, nachdem die von den Hanse<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />städten abgesandten Geschenke übergeben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />worden sind, um den Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003408 http://d-nb.info/gnd/135551056\">Bock</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den Königen anzuempfehlen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.14	p	Die im <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008406\">Preußischen</placeName> Styl übersandten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Uniformen des Jäger und des Garde Corps, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unter den Geschenken der Hansestädte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden ohne Zweifel beiden Majestäten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr gefallen, und da die Leibgarde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweiten Königs</persName> bereits blau mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />roth uniformirt ist, so bedarf es jetzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nur des Waffenrockes um der <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008406\">Preußischen</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Armee nachzuahmen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.15	p	Der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste König</persName> hat eine Leibgarde, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche Kürasse, Helme, und eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Uniform <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">gleich</add> de<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">n</del> <add place=\"across\">r</add> </subst> Englischen Leibgarde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">the Blues</foreign>“ genannt, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>tragen</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">trägt</corr> </choice>. Die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Männer sind aber so klein, und die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Pferde so schwach, daß das cuirassirte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und helmirte Corps mehr einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />liliputer Burleske gleicht, als einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Nachahmung.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.16	p	Der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste König</persName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> gab an seinem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Geburtstag (der 18<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><hi rendition=\"#sup\">te</hi></hi> October) den Consuln <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"18v\" />und fremden Kaufleuten<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> ein großes diné <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und ich erhielt bei dieser Gelegenheit die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Auszeichnung vom <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">König</persName>, mit einem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brocatenen Galakleide, verziert mit goldenen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Knöpfen, und mit einer grünen und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gold-gestickten Schärpe beehrt zu werden. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">König</persName> selbst half mir<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> den Prachtrock <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anzuziehen und die Schärpe umzubinden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und theilte mir dadurch die Würde eines <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\"><lb />Siam</placeName>esischen Edelmann’s mit, da es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Nobilität nur erlaubt ist, solch einen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Anzug zu tragen. Der zweite Beamte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des Consulats, Herr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020785\">Knox</persName>, erhielt ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Galakleid ohne die Schärpe. Diese <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Siamesische Ehrenbezeigung ist keinem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Europäer wiederfahren, seit der großen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gesandtschaft<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000242 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118816829\">Ludwig der 14<hi rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">te</hi></hi></persName> nach <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName> sandte. Dennoch war die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ceremonie mir unangenehm, da sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />öffentlich statt fand, und ich der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einzige Consul war, der sie erhielt. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\">Wie bemerkt</add><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">D</del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst>ie jetzigen Tage bilden im jährlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Cyclus eine sehr festliche Periode in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"19r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">3</fw><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">Bangkok</placeName>, und ein Fremder<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Eigenthümlichkeiten der Nation kennen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lernen will, sollte zu dieser Zeit ankommen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.17	p	Ich bin dem Herrn Castellan <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seyfert</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht sehr verbunden für die Gemählde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche er abgesandt hat, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im Studirzimmer vorstellend. Mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Agente Herr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020841 https://d-nb.info/gnd/136712770\">John Russel Smith</persName>, ist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so einfältig gewesen, mich erst zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fragen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> ob er dieselben in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">London</placeName> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Rahmen einfassen lassen soll. Bevor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine bejahende Antwort dort <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ankommen kann, um die schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bilder hier zu erhalten, müssen noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />viele Monate vergehen. Einmal <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in den Händen de<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">r</add> </subst> König<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">e</add> </subst>, bin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich gewiß überzeugt, daß im Sale des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweiten Königs</persName>; das Bild des hohen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gelehrten und berühmten Reisenden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in seinem Studirzimmer, zur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Seite jener der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">Königin von England</persName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013662 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11864758X\">Prinzen Albert</persName>, des <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000228 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118586416\">Kaisers von <lb />Frankreich</persName>, des <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003736 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11866784X\">Praesidenten der <lb />Vereinigten Staaten</persName> &<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">c</hi></hi> prangen wird<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.18	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"19v\" />Ich habe Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seyfert</persName> in der Einlage meinen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dank ausgedrückt – seine Zuvorkommen<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />heit und Anhänglichkeit gegen mich und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine Brüder, ist stets die dieselbe gewesen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.19	p	Der Tod meines Bruders <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">Otto</persName> hat mich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr angegriffen. Er war<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> (ist ein solcher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ausdruck erlaubt<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>) mein Lieblingsbruder<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Es scheint<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß der Arme sehr leiden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mußte<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bevor ihn Gott zu sich rief. Die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zarteren Organe des Unterleibes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und selbst das Rückgrad waren mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Hämorrhoiden bedeckt. Herr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">Seyfert</persName> hat <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ihnen wahrscheinlich mitgetheilt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">Otto</persName>’s Todestage <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">(16<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> August in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">Buchsfelde</placeName>)</add> wir lebhaft uns <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von ihm unterhielten, und ich die Bemerkung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />machte, daß, schließend vom Inhalte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der erhaltenen Briefe, ich <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">wäre der <lb />Mei</add> </subst>nung, <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">Otto</persName> sei schon in ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besseres Leben übergegangen. Zur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Zeit dieser Unterredung lag <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">Otto</persName> auf <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seiner Bahre, der Erde noch nicht zurück<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gegeben. Er hat ein einziges <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020834\">Kind</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"20r\" />zurückgelassen, einen Knaben<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\">sei</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">meinen</add> </subst> Nahmen trägt. Seine <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020140\">Wittwe</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hat kaum die Trauerzeit abwarten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, um sich sich wieder zu verheiraten; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nämlich an einen gewissen <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020783\">Klay</persName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.20	p	Es ist mein tiefster Wunsch<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß dieser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Brief <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz in bestem Wohlsein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />antreffen mag. Sollte sich eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gelegenheit darbieten, so bitte ich<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Excellenz unserem leidenden <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">König</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine tiefe Theilnahme darbringen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mögen. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Majestät</persName> hat mich stets mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Herablassung und Wohlwollen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beehrt, welches meine tiefe Dankbarkeit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verursacht hat, und nicht allein als <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Landeskind, sondern auch aus herzlichem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Gefühle, bete ich für seine schnelle Wieder<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />genesung.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.21	p	Ich lege ein Briefchen bei<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welches der <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste König</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an mich sandte. E<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">r</del> <add place=\"across\">s</add> </subst> besitzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vielleicht ein eignes Interesse für <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ew.</abbr> <expan>Eure</expan> </choice> Excellenz<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die Handschrift und Styl des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">Siam</placeName>esischen <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">Monarchen</persName> kennen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu lernen.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.1	p	ich habe die große freude gehabt, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zwei briefe <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eurer</expan> </choice> excellenz, kurz auf einander <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu erhalten. beide sind von langen daten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nehmlich vom 21<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> märz und 8<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">ten</hi></hi> april. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sie kamen nicht <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p<hi rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">r</hi></hi></hi></abbr> <expan>per</expan> </choice> <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ef7131d3-413d-4e03-b131-d3413d2e03d2\" corresp=\"#ccdb7afa-ad6d-4875-9b7a-faad6d58757b\" type=\"editorialnote\">„<foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">overland mail</foreign>“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ccdb7afa-ad6d-4875-9b7a-faad6d58757b\" corresp=\"#ef7131d3-413d-4e03-b131-d3413d2e03d2\" type=\"editorial\">der begriff „overland mail“ bezieht sich hier auf die postroute zwischen <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">indien</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">großbritannien</placename> über die <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020327 http://www.geonames.org/347810\">landenge von suez</placename>. der Überlandtransport zwischen den hafenstädten alexandria und suez ersetzte den längeren und gefährlichen seeweg um das <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577\">kap der guten hoffnung</placename>.</note>, sondern <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bei schiffsgelegenheit um das <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000355 https://www.geonames.org/3367577\">cap der guten <lb />hoffnung</placename>. hätte ich nicht so viele beweise gehabt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der ausgezeichneten liebe und freundschaft <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit welcher excellenz mich beehrt haben, das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lange stillschweigen hätte mich glauben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lassen können, ich sei vergessen. diese so eben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erhaltenen briefe zeugen vom gegentheil, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deren inhalt spricht in denselben gütigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ausdrücken, die mir schon so lange <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geworden sind.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.2	p	ich bin recht krank gewesen, und mußte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"15v\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename> auf einige zeit verlassen, um <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich an der küste des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020507 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">golfes von siam</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />wieder zu erholen. die hier den fremden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so gefährliche krankheit „dysentery“ oder rothe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ruhr, griff auch mich an, der nie von dieser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plage in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">guiana</placename> gelitten hatte und ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />glaubte beinah, es sei mit mir vorüber. das <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brittische consulat hat bereits 2 seiner beamten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>dieser</orig> <reg>diese</reg> </choice> krankheit verlohren, und einen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dritten hatte ich nach <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">england</placename> zurückzusenden<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />um dort seine gesundheit <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">wieder</add> </subst> zu erhalten. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />er ist noch nicht zurückgekehrt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> da er <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mehr gelitten hatte, wie man im anfang <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />glaubte. sie werden daher schließen, excellenz, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß diese krankheit europäern eben so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gefährlich ist, wie das gelbe fieber <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007952 https://www.geonames.org/3571219\">west indien</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.3	p	<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>im</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">in</corr> </choice> folge meiner krankheit und des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verlustes im personale, habe ich <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mit der ausnahme meiner tour nach <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020729 https://www.geonames.org/1620954\">anhin</placename> nicht verlassen können. so sehr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich auch wünsche die nördlichen unbekannten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />theile <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename>s zu besuchen, so muß ich dies <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dennoch für jetzt aufgeben.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.4	p	<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\"><pb n=\"16r\" />bangkok</placename> ist eine wunderbare stadt, ein <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009115 https://www.geonames.org/3164600\">venedig</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in seinen canälen, aber statt der schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />paläste, sieht man hier meistentheils nur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />armselige hütten und schmutzige enge <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />straßen. ein großer theil der bewohner <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>leben</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">lebt</corr> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in häusern, welche auf pontons von <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"bambusoideae\">bamboo</name> gefertigt, den ufern des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020579 https://www.geonames.org/1611244\">menam</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entlang, errichtet sind. da sie meisten<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />theils von ausschnitthändlern und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />krämern bewohnt werden, welche hier ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />waaren feil bieten, so kann man sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht passlich schwimmende basare nennen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.5	p	der verkehr findet deshalb meistentheils <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in kähnen statt. mit der ausnahme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eines theils <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename>s, welcher die palläste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beider könige in sich faßt und mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einer hohen mauer umgeben ist, giebt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es nur wenige straßen wo man zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pferde oder im wagen fortkommen kann<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.6	p	als eine große seltenheit lassen die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />könige, während großen processionen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im bezirk der königlichen palläste <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />statt finden, im zuge auch eine kalesche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"16v\" />folgen, das kleine pferd (<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">pony</foreign>) welches sie zieht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ist aber so wenig daran gewöhnt, daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es von bedienten geführt werden muß, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und dennoch schlägt es manchmal über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die deichsel.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.7	p	die jetzigen tage bilden eine hohe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />festliche periode in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename>. der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />austritt des alten und eintritt des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />neuen jahres werden nun schon seit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />drei wochen gefe<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">y</add> </subst>ert. feuerwerke haben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />statt gefunden, welche den pyrotechnisten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ehre machten, und die könige wechsel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />seitig, nehmen große processionen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu lande und bei wasser vor.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.8	p	der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste könig</persname> (oder wie er liebt sich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu nennen <foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">the major king</foreign>,) begab sich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kürzlich nach <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020652 https://www.geonames.org/1150954\">ra<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">x</unclear>aburi</placename> am fluße <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020578 https://www.geonames.org/1608933\">meklong</placename> welcher sich ungefähr <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"mile\">16 <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>englische</expan> </choice> meilen</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />westlich vom <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020579 https://www.geonames.org/1611244\">menam</placename> in den <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020507 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">g<subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">o</add> </subst>lf</placename> einmündet.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.9	p	fünfzig bis <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>sechszig</orig> <reg>sechzig</reg> </choice> königsböte, viele <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />über hundert fuß lang, und wie jene <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unserer freunde in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">guiana</placename>, aus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einem soliden baumstamme gemacht, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />begleiteten ihn. was aber der procession <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"17r\" />einen besonderen anblick gab, waren sechs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dampfböte, einige den königen, und andere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deren hofleuten angehörend. diese, mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ausnahme der maschinen, waren sämmtlich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename> gebaut.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.10	p	die könige, hauptsächlich der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">jüngere</persname>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besitzen eine so hohe liebe für schiffs<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />architektur, daß man es beinah eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />manie nennen könnte. mehrere <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dampfböte sind auf der werfte, und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweite könig</persname> hat so eben die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nöthigen instructionen gegeben, ihm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ein kanonenboot in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">england</placename> bauen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu lassen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.11	p	dies sind die hervortretenden züge <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im character der zwei merkwürdigen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />herrscher <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename>s – der hohe wissenschaftliche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sinn fehlt aber, den man dem <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">ersten <lb />könig</persname> zugeschrieben hat. die schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />astronomischen instrumente<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">ihro majestät die königin</persname> von <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">england</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />durch mich, an den <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">ersten könig</persname> sandte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />liegen gewiß unberührt, und folglich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"17v\" />unbenutzt, in ihren kisten.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.12	p	<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dc1b94a0-d655-4c3c-9b94-a0d6554c3c77\" corresp=\"#f8fa3875-0389-4615-ba38-750389161503\" type=\"editorialnote\">die geschenke der hanseatischen <lb />städte sind hier angekommen, aber noch <lb />nicht überreicht worden.</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f8fa3875-0389-4615-ba38-750389161503\" corresp=\"#dc1b94a0-d655-4c3c-9b94-a0d6554c3c77\" type=\"editorial\">die hansestädte <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005351 https://www.geonames.org/2944388\">bremen</placename>, <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006791 https://www.geonames.org/2911298\">hamburg</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017256 https://www.geonames.org/2875601\">lübeck</placename> schlossen im oktober 1858 einen handelsvertrag mit <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename> ab, wie kurz zuvor bereits <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">großbritannien</placename> sowie die <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009136 https://www.geonames.org/6252001\">vereinigten staaten</placename>. das Überreichen von geschenken an die könige <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename>s gehörte zu den diplomatischen gepflogenheiten (vgl. <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/7gihmrgq\">fiedler 2022</bibl>).</note> ich zweifele <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß die vom herrn hofmusikhändler <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003408 http://d-nb.info/gnd/135551056\">bock</persname> ausgewählten instrumente je <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gebraucht werden. die militaire<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>musik <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der könige<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> besteht aus einfachen, dem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />halb-wilden zustande angemessenen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />instrumenten, und ich bin überzeugt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />daß vom director des musikcorps, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bis zum tambour, kein einziger eine note <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />versteht. das gehör allein leitet ihre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />musik, und ob sie gleich manchmal <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />versuchen „<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">god save the queen</foreign>“, oder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bekannte irländische melodien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nachzuahmen, so ist es ein jammer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />für das ohr. schalmeyen, clarinetten, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flöten aus <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"bambusoideae\">bambus</name>rohr, außer ton <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und takt geblasen, und trompeten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nicht besser behandelt, dies sind die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beliebten instrumente des siamesischen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />musik corps.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.13	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"18r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">2</fw>ich werde dennoch die erste gelegenheit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />benutzen, nachdem die von den hanse<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />städten abgesandten geschenke übergeben <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />worden sind, um den herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003408 http://d-nb.info/gnd/135551056\">bock</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den königen anzuempfehlen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.14	p	die im <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008406\">preußischen</placename> styl übersandten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uniformen des jäger und des garde corps, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unter den geschenken der hansestädte, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werden ohne zweifel beiden majestäten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr gefallen, und da die leibgarde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweiten königs</persname> bereits blau mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />roth uniformirt ist, so bedarf es jetzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nur des waffenrockes um der <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008406\">preußischen</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />armee nachzuahmen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.15	p	der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste könig</persname> hat eine leibgarde, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche kürasse, helme, und eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />uniform <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">gleich</add> de<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">n</del> <add place=\"across\">r</add> </subst> englischen leibgarde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"eng\">the blues</foreign>“ genannt, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>tragen</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">trägt</corr> </choice>. die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />männer sind aber so klein, und die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pferde so schwach, daß das cuirassirte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und helmirte corps mehr einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />liliputer burleske gleicht, als einer <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nachahmung.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.16	p	der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste könig</persname><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> gab an seinem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geburtstag (der 18<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><hi rendition=\"#sup\">te</hi></hi> october) den consuln <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"18v\" />und fremden kaufleuten<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> ein großes diné <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und ich erhielt bei dieser gelegenheit die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auszeichnung vom <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">könig</persname>, mit einem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brocatenen galakleide, verziert mit goldenen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />knöpfen, und mit einer grünen und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gold-gestickten schärpe beehrt zu werden. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">könig</persname> selbst half mir<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> den prachtrock <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anzuziehen und die schärpe umzubinden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und theilte mir dadurch die würde eines <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\"><lb />siam</placename>esischen edelmann’s mit, da es <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der nobilität nur erlaubt ist, solch einen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />anzug zu tragen. der zweite beamte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des consulats, herr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020785\">knox</persname>, erhielt ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />galakleid ohne die schärpe. diese <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />siamesische ehrenbezeigung ist keinem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />europäer wiederfahren, seit der großen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gesandtschaft<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> welche <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000242 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118816829\">ludwig der 14<hi rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">te</hi></hi></persname> nach <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename> sandte. dennoch war die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ceremonie mir unangenehm, da sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />öffentlich statt fand, und ich der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einzige consul war, der sie erhielt. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\">wie bemerkt</add><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">d</del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst>ie jetzigen tage bilden im jährlichen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cyclus eine sehr festliche periode in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"19r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">3</fw><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020899 https://www.geonames.org/1609350\">bangkok</placename>, und ein fremder<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />eigenthümlichkeiten der nation kennen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lernen will, sollte zu dieser zeit ankommen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.17	p	ich bin dem herrn castellan <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seyfert</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recht sehr verbunden für die gemählde <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welche er abgesandt hat, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />im studirzimmer vorstellend. mein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />agente herr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020841 https://d-nb.info/gnd/136712770\">john russel smith</persname>, ist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so einfältig gewesen, mich erst zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fragen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> ob er dieselben in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">london</placename> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rahmen einfassen lassen soll. bevor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine bejahende antwort dort <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ankommen kann, um die schönen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bilder hier zu erhalten, müssen noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />viele monate vergehen. einmal <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in den händen de<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">r</add> </subst> könig<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">e</add> </subst>, bin <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich gewiß überzeugt, daß im sale des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020836 https://lccn.loc.gov/n88268830\">zweiten königs</persname>; das bild des hohen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gelehrten und berühmten reisenden, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in seinem studirzimmer, zur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seite jener der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013666 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118626876\">königin von england</persname><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013662 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11864758x\">prinzen albert</persname>, des <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000228 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118586416\">kaisers von <lb />frankreich</persname>, des <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003736 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11866784x\">praesidenten der <lb />vereinigten staaten</persname> &<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\"><hi rendition=\"#uu\">c</hi></hi> prangen wird<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.18	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"19v\" />ich habe herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seyfert</persname> in der einlage meinen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dank ausgedrückt – seine zuvorkommen<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />heit und anhänglichkeit gegen mich und <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine brüder, ist stets die dieselbe gewesen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.19	p	der tod meines bruders <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">otto</persname> hat mich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sehr angegriffen. er war<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> (ist ein solcher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ausdruck erlaubt<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>,</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>) mein lieblingsbruder<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es scheint<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß der arme sehr leiden <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mußte<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bevor ihn gott zu sich rief. die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zarteren organe des unterleibes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und selbst das rückgrad waren mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hämorrhoiden bedeckt. herr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015791 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117656070\">seyfert</persname> hat <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ihnen wahrscheinlich mitgetheilt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">otto</persname>’s todestage <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">(16<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> august in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019248 https://www.geonames.org/11776293\">buchsfelde</placename>)</add> wir lebhaft uns <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />von ihm unterhielten, und ich die bemerkung <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />machte, daß, schließend vom inhalte <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der erhaltenen briefe, ich <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">wäre der <lb />mei</add> </subst>nung, <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">otto</persname> sei schon in ein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />besseres leben übergegangen. zur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zeit dieser unterredung lag <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015644 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116911921\">otto</persname> auf <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seiner bahre, der erde noch nicht zurück<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gegeben. er hat ein einziges <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020834\">kind</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"20r\" />zurückgelassen, einen knaben<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\">sei</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">meinen</add> </subst> nahmen trägt. seine <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020140\">wittwe</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hat kaum die trauerzeit abwarten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />können, um sich sich wieder zu verheiraten; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nämlich an einen gewissen <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020783\">klay</persname>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.20	p	es ist mein tiefster wunsch<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß dieser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />brief <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz in bestem wohlsein <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />antreffen mag. sollte sich eine <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gelegenheit darbieten, so bitte ich<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> daß <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />excellenz unserem leidenden <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">könig</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />meine tiefe theilnahme darbringen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mögen. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">majestät</persname> hat mich stets mit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der herablassung und wohlwollen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beehrt, welches meine tiefe dankbarkeit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />verursacht hat, und nicht allein als <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />landeskind, sondern auch aus herzlichem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gefühle, bete ich für seine schnelle wieder<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />genesung.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020431:1.21	p	ich lege ein briefchen bei<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />welches der <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">erste könig</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />an mich sandte. e<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">r</del> <add place=\"across\">s</add> </subst> besitzt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vielleicht ein eignes interesse für <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ew.</abbr> <expan>eure</expan> </choice> excellenz<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die handschrift und styl des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010214 https://www.geonames.org/1605651\">siam</placename>esischen <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020837 https://d-nb.info/gnd/119137003\">monarchen</persname> kennen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />zu lernen.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.1	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">In dem ersten <ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020421\">Briefe</ref> von <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Hooker</persName>: <lb />Schneelinie <choice> <abbr>nördl.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher</expan> </choice> Abfall des <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> <lb />(trans <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">Sutledge</placeName> Region) <choice> <abbr>lat</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 36° Höhe <measure quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 feet</measure> <lb /> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"18764\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">18764 <choice> <abbr>par F.</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure>; Südlicher Abfall gegen <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">Assam</placeName> und <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">Brahmaputra</placeName> <measure quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15000 feet</measure> <choice> <abbr>od.</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"14072\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">14072 <choice> <abbr>par</abbr> <expan>Pariser</expan> </choice> Fuss</measure><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb />Humboldt <ref xml:id=\"cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490\" corresp=\"#b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175\" type=\"editorialNote\">Asie <choice> <abbr>centr.</abbr> <expan>centrale</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>Vol</abbr> <expan>Volume</expan> </choice> III <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 326</ref><note xml:id=\"b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175\" corresp=\"#cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, III, 326.</note>: <choice> <abbr>nördl Abf.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher Abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"15600\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">15600 <choice> <abbr>par F</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb /><choice> <abbr>südl Abf.</abbr> <expan>südlicher Abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"12180\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">12180 <choice> <abbr>par F</abbr> <expan>Pariser Fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.2	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Hooker</persName> findet jetzt <choice> <abbr>Südl.</abbr> <expan>Südliche</expan> </choice> Schneegrenze im <lb />Meridian vor <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-ginga</placeName> <measure quantity=\"14509\" unit=\"foot\">14509</measure>, <measure quantity=\"14100\" unit=\"foot\"><choice> <sic>1410</sic> <corr>14100</corr> </choice></measure> und <lb /><measure quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 feet</measure>.</foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.3	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">Was <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Hooker</persName> meine<ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_bfh_kf5_jyb\"> <foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">glorious a<choice> <orig>p</orig> <reg>pp</reg> </choice>roximation of the hight <lb />of <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chamalari</placeName></foreign></ref> sagt<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bezieht sich auf mein<supplied cert=\"high\">e</supplied> alte <lb />Behauptung<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dass der Berg nicht <measure quantity=\"26000\" unit=\"foot\">26000 feet</measure> hoch <lb />sein kann<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Man hat ihn jezt nur <measure quantity=\"23929\" unit=\"foot\">23929 feet</measure> gefunden <lb />(<ref xml:id=\"aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a\" corresp=\"#b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7\" type=\"editorialNote\">Asie centrale <choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> III <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 282</ref><note xml:id=\"b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7\" corresp=\"#aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/TKGUVJEV\">Humboldt 1843</bibl>, III, 282.</note>).</foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.4	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">Man kann schreiben <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain (Kunchin <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> Kinchin) <lb />-junga</placeName><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> In früheren Briefen steht <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin-junga</placeName> und <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">—-<choice> <sic>ju</sic> <corr>gi</corr> </choice>nga</placeName><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.5	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">Mr <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Waugh</persName><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der zuerst den <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName> maass<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb />hat nun au<subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">h</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>h den <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalgari</placeName> (sic) <lb />gemessen: er ist eben so hoch <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">a <lb />little higher</foreign> als <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName>. Endresultat <lb />ist<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dass wenig Unterschied zwischen <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb /><del rendition=\"#s\">Cha</del> <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalaghiri</placeName> <lb />und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510\">Deodangha</placeName><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der noch <lb />auf keiner Carte steht<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.6	p	<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" />Your long & most welcome <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />letter arrived when I was <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in </sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>travelling <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName> & was not received by me <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for many weeks after its arrival <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">here</add>. On <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my return <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">from</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">to</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjiling</placeName> Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />had left the station on account of his <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />health & it was only on my joining <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />him last <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">month</date> in the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">Terai</placeName> that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I could talk with him about the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />contents of your letter. In the first place <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />he desires me to thank you with the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />greatest warmth & sincerity for the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kind & prompt attention you have <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">paid</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">given to <lb />our request</add> </subst>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the long letter you have written, the great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />compliment thus paid to us, & above all <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for the admirable & unexceptionable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plan you & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName> have drawn <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />out. You cannot conceive what a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />load of trouble this has taken off our <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hands, nor what a prized memorial it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />will <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">ever</add> be, not only to ourselves, but to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the country, for whose benefit the charts <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are planned. That this first attempt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to instruct the youth of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">India</placeName> in physical<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />science, & in their own tongue, should <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />be grounded on a plan of Baron Hum<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />boldt’s, gives a character to the undertaking <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that nothing else could. Believe us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />we never <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">expected</add> you to have paid such attention <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the subject<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & that in doing so you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have done us the happiest service. The <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />work shall go forth as the offspring of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Baron Humboldt<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <reg>’</reg> </choice>s matured experience, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I am sure that it will not be felt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unworthy of you my kind friend, after <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so many years of usefulness in other <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\">&</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">spheres</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& countries to have your name so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prominently associated with <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">the </del> <add place=\"intralinear\">an</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />undertaking which under whatever <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficulties must succeed in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">India</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.7	p	I <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">wrote shortly to <choice> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName>,</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">requesting him</hi> <hi rendition=\"#uu\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">to delay</hi></hi> till we should <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hear whether the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Govt:</abbr> <expan>Government</expan> </choice> would wish <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to take any part in & propose any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alterations to the plan<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> This they <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />do not & as nothing it appears to us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />can be better than the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">proposal</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">plan</add> </subst> you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">Berghaus</persName> have made we think <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">it</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">the details</add> </subst> better left wholly to the judgement<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">of that distinguished & experienced man<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb />The money<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\">money</note> is lodged with my <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Father</persName> <lb />to be remitted exactly as you propose <lb />& I shall <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">write by this mail</hi> to <choice> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\"><choice> <abbr>B.</abbr> <expan>Berghaus</expan> </choice></persName> <lb />again.</hi> I wish the sum could be larger<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I am sure <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Prof.</abbr> <expan>Professor</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\"><choice> <abbr>B.</abbr> <expan>Berghaus</expan> </choice></persName> deserves that it should, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />but Mr. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> is no longer in the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />service, & our private means are limited<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.8	p	Regarding your questions as to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heights of the great <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>Himal</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> Peaks<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">:</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">1º</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">by 3 stations <lb />on the plains</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><measure quantity=\"28125.7\" unit=\"foot\">28125.7</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28182.6\" unit=\"foot\">28182.6</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28192.5\" unit=\"foot\">28192.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.4	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">by 4 stations <lb />within <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514\">Sub <choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28177.4\" unit=\"foot\">28177.4</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.5	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28183.0\" unit=\"foot\">28183.0</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.6	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28162.5\" unit=\"foot\">28162.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.7	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><measure quantity=\"28212.8\" unit=\"foot\">28212.8</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">Mean <lb /><measure quantity=\"28176.6\" unit=\"foot\">28176.6.</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">Base measured<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">= <measure quantity=\"36685.77\" unit=\"foot\">36,685.77</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><choice> <abbr>Dº</abbr> <expan>Ditto</expan> </choice> by △ over 350′</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">= <measure quantity=\"36685.30\" unit=\"foot\">36,685.30</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><choice> <abbr>Diff.</abbr> <expan>Difference</expan> </choice> Feet <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>English</expan> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#right\"><choice> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice><measure quantity=\"0.47\" unit=\"foot\">0.47</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.10	p	2. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalgari</placeName> hast just been remeasured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Col:</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Waugh</persName>. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>h</orig> <reg>H</reg> </choice>e believes its<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" />elevation to be considerably under<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>r<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ated</sic> <corr><g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rated</corr> </choice> – & that it will prove to be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />as high if not a very little higher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.11	p	3. There is another Peak between <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\" hand=\"#unknown\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gosaingthan</placeName> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Dhayabung</placeName> <lb /><ref xml:id=\"e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6\" corresp=\"#eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81\" type=\"editorialNote\">Erdkunde <lb />IV, 8, 31, 32<choice> <orig> </orig> <reg>, </reg> </choice>90</ref><note xml:id=\"eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81\" corresp=\"#e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/I9TR2WMV\">Ritter 1822–1859</bibl>, IV, 8, 31, 32, 90.</note> <lb /> </note><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\"><metamark>?</metamark></note> than<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\"><metamark>?</metamark></note></placeName> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName> – seen both <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName> valley & thence called <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510\"><hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">“Deodangha”</hi></placeName> & also from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />This has never been measured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>till</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> since my last letter to you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nor even laid down on charts – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">but which <choice> <abbr>Col.</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Waugh</persName> considers <lb />as probably a very little higher <lb />than either <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName> or <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalgari</placeName>.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.12	p	4<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">Jawari</placeName> I can give you no further <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />information at all. Under any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />circumstances it ranks as a second <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />class Peak in point of mere elevation.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.13	p	To conclude I have given you exactly all I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />know<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> I wish it were more definite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />but <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Col:</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Waugh</persName> looks upon an <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\" reason=\"illegible\">error</unclear> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of a foot in mensuration, as of more <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />importance than I do – & <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\">it</unclear></del> <add place=\"across\">he</add> </subst> speaks & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />writes with all the doubts I have given <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you above. He concludes that there <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">can be <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">but little difference</hi> between <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalgari</placeName>, <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510\">Deodhanga</placeName> & <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName></hi> –</hi> that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />no other Peaks approach these, that all<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">II</fw>exceed <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">28000 <choice> <abbr>Engl.</abbr> <expan>English</expan> </choice> feet</measure>. – Curious as is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the problem of height<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the most interesting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to me is the position of the dominant masses; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whether <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"medium\">of</unclear></del> <add place=\"superlinear\">great in</add> </subst> mean elevation of their mass or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />actual height of a particular spire is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of less consequence. For it is where the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great accumulations of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Perp</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> Snow are, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the watersheds will head. There <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are between <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Long</abbr> <expan>Longitude</expan> </choice> 80° & 9<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">8</del> <add place=\"across\">0</add> </subst>°. 1<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice>º <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">Jawar</placeName>. 2º <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dawalgri</placeName>. 3º <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">Gossain than</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 4º<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005510\">Deodhangha</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />5<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kanchain</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 6<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 7<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">t</add> </subst>wo unnamed <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Peaks <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">of</del> not accurately measured in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhothan</placeName>. Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> demonstrates <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the great <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514\"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalayan</expan> </choice></placeName> rivers have <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their sources in these, that there came <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the waters of the opposing faces of 2 contiguous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Peaks to converge to meet <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in the</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"covered\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> generally <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514\"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> & form Deltic basins<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>;</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />By means of these basins we propose to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />divide the whole <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> Geographically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Ethnograph.</abbr> <expan>Ethnographically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Zoolog.</abbr> <expan>Zoologically</expan> </choice> & Botanically. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for instance is the basin of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Teesta</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />where East feeders rise from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchan</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& are pushed all to the East, so as almost <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to meet the waters of <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">the</del> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which are pushed West. Further West <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of this you will observe that the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />waters from the opposite faces of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />contiguous Peaks meet within the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514\"><choice> <abbr>SubHimal</abbr> <expan>SubHimalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> – here they do not; but<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4v\" />still between the grand <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">South</add> spur of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> (<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683\">Singalelah</placeName>) which runs from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />its summit to the plains, & the grand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />South spur of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName> which is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />also continuous to the plains, – all is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />one water shed<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> To explain this I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />send you a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb\">small sketch plan</ref> which <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />will also help to illustrate my recent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tour in the mountains.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.14	p	Unfortunately the season of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">1848</date> was so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bad & the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354\">Rajah</persName> so strenuously <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opposed my visiting <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kunchin</placeName> in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that I was obliged to put off starting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />till the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">very end of October</date> & take a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />circuitous route in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName>. Thus I was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />led to two <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> Passes – the Eastermost <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of there in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName> & to a fair exami<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nation of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>NW</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice>, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>SW.</abbr> <expan>Southwest</expan> </choice> & latterly the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> limits of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> Snow upon the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great mountain. My chart is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hardly finished & as you may suppose <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the labor of such a work amongst <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mountains wherein known points <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are never visible is great.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.15	p	Starting <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjeeling</placeName> I crossed <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683\">Singalelah</placeName> spur of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & descended to the feeders <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c\" corresp=\"#e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a\" type=\"editorialNote\">Mai</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a\" corresp=\"#c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c\" type=\"editorial\">Eventuell handelt es sich um den <placeName ref=\"ed_as4_klb_5xb\">Mai Khola</placeName>.</note> & <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6668900\">Myong</placeName> rivers. Thence I<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5r\" />struck North intending to go by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the ridges to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> before proceeding <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> to the Passes – My food beare<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">rs</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />here deserted me<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> they were people <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName> & the only ones thought to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />be equally fitted for the hot valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice>. I ha<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> thus to wait patiently <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />till the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-11\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">middle of <choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> on a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mt</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> when I employed myself in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Met. Observ.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological Observations</expan> </choice> & Botany<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> sending out my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />remaining people to the distant villages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for coolies. With Enough of them to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />carry my necessaries & leaving the food<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I struck <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> amongst deep Gorges (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"foot\">3000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above sea) & ascended a very lofty <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />transverse ridge from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683\">Singalelah</placeName> of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <lb /><choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> seeking a way to the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">Tambur river</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along which the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> high road from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020520 https://www.geonames.org/12095475\">Ilam</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">Walloong</placeName> on the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> frontier runs.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.16	p	Reaching that <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">river</placeName> when only <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2500\" unit=\"foot\">2500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the sea I ascended it getting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />foo<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"medium\">t</unclear></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> as best we could & carrying a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tropical vegetation up to amongst <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />those spurs of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> which are <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetually</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snowed. I arrived at the limits of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Oryza sativa\">rice</name> cultivation & Hinduism & the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5v\" />commencement of a temperate zone <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">& Bhothia inhabitants<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></add> on the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-11-25\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">25 <choice> <abbr>Nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>November</expan> </choice></date> – The change was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sudden from <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3\" corresp=\"#dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67\" type=\"editorialNote\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Bubalus\">Bubalus</name></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67\" corresp=\"#f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3\" type=\"editorial\">Der Asiatische Büffel (Bubalus) ist eine Untergattung der Rinder (<name type=\"animal\">Bovini</name>), im <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019329\">Süden</placeName> und Südosten <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asiens</placeName> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Oryza sativa\">Rice</name> to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628\" corresp=\"#f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0\" type=\"editorialNote\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"Bos\">Bos</name></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0\" corresp=\"#a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628\" type=\"editorial\">Das Eigentliche Rind (Bos) ist eine Untergattung der Rinder (<name type=\"animal\">Bovini</name>), in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002578\">Asien</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890\">Nordamerika</placeName> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Mais\">corn</name>. Still ascending to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">Walloong</placeName> by stupendous gorges, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">third</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">2<hi rendition=\"#sup\">nd</hi></add> </subst> change from <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Bos\">Bos</name> to <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Bison\">Bison</name> (the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Yak\">Yak</name>, whose progenitor is the wild <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bison {non descript} of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> plan) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />was mere gradual. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">Walloong</placeName> is the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020514\">cis <choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalayan</expan> </choice></placeName> commercial entrepot of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bhotheas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Here I was received with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />suspicion & every obstacles to my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proceeding to the Passes organized, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />more effectually as the season was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very late & food was <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>witheld</orig> <reg>withheld</reg> </choice>. Happily <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I had a dozen Bhotan men still <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with me<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> a set of villains feared by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mt:</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> powers, & by dint of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bullying the authorities & threatening <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to let the Bhotan men loose upon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their store houses, I was allowed to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proceed <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">after</add> 2 days delay to the Pass.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.17	p	<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">Walloong village</placeName> is about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Pass<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> 1½ days beyond, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">&</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">is</add> </subst> about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12\" unit=\"mile\">12 miles</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">North</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>WNW</abbr> <expan>West North West</expan> </choice></add> </subst> of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> top & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"25\" unit=\"mile\">25</measure> from the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />latter – We reached the summit in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />two days, with much difficulty, the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folNum\">III a</fw>ground deeply covered with <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">October</date> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snow at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12000\" unit=\"foot\">12000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, which at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"13000\" unit=\"foot\">13000</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />does not melt till <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">March</date> following. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />The summit was <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16700\" unit=\"foot\">16700 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, but still <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />3 marches from the Plain of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is here cut off by 2 lofty <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ranges<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> spurs of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> projecting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>NW.</abbr> <expan>Northwest</expan> </choice> on that plain of lower elevation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than my position, but cut off by now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heavily snowed valleys. I could not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />get one coolie to the top of the pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& at this season to have proceeded to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> without <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"Yak\">Yaks</name> would be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impossible <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">were</unclear> even there no Chinese <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />guard at the foot of the 3.<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">d</hi> range. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />As near as I could ascertain the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">snow line <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">is here <measure quantity=\"14500\" unit=\"foot\">14500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></hi></hi> & from what <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I afterwards saw I still think this is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />not underestimated but with such <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a mash as the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">October</date> fall it is quite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impossible to speak accurately.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.18	p	This not being the Easternmost Pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />over the range into <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, & ergo not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the nearest accessible point to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />top in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> I determined on <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my return to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">Walloong</placeName> to visit the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />valley <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>E.</abbr> <expan>East</expan> </choice> of this whence a loftier pass<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hardly used, leads to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> – Descending <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">Tambur</placeName> I turned up the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">Yangma</placeName> <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />valley which expanded into a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />broad treeless gorge full of Lake beds<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />The Lake beds are confined by enormous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dams of rock which have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />projected across the valley when the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whole was under water. When in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />short the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> plain was accumulating <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />its deposits of Gravel (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> thick <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have been measured in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>W.</abbr> <expan>West</expan> </choice> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the waters standing at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15000</measure> in the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">Yangma valley</placeName> have left on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flanks of that valley parallel roads <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />as beautiful as those of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020504 https://www.geonames.org/2639027\">Glen Roy</placeName> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010167 https://www.geonames.org/2638360\">Scotland</placeName>. Lateral gulleys have floated <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rocks into the valley upon Bergs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bridging it completely across, so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that on the retirement of the waters <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />these bridges formed dams. The <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Terraces are on both sides the valley <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the Lake beds<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> are perfectly <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parallel<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> rise in steppes along the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />steep <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> faces<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & are every where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />strewed with enormous blocks of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rock – In these lateral glacial valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />small patches of glacial Ice now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alone are found<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & the gravel & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rubbish are disposed by them, as the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7r\" />enormous blocks (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"yard\">20 yds</measure> long) were by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the greater Ice action in past eras.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.19	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.19.1	figure	<figDesc xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">Schematische Zeichnung des Flußtales des <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H4126024 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">Yangma Khola</placeName>, des<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020877 https://www.geonames.org/8005421\">Yangma</placeName> sowie der angrenzenden Hügel und Terrassen, von <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Joseph Dalton Hooker</persName> in Tinte.</figDesc>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.20	p	From this we descended to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876\">Yalloong</placeName> valley intending to go up it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876\">Yalloong</placeName> village & thence cross <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the great Southern Spur of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(called <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683\">Singalelah</placeName>) into <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />To our distress for we had but one <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mMM\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">day’s more food <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">the <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020876\">village</placeName></hi> was <lb />found <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">deeply</hi> buried <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">in Snow</hi></hi> & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />inhabitants <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">had</add> fled to the nearest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />villages in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName>. To cross <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020683\">Singalelah</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from hence, where it could not be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />less than <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> was impossible & we <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hence<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> had no choice but to follow<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"8v\" />the valley down <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.W.</abbr> <expan>South West</expan> </choice> & seek the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />first villages – which we reached <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on the thir<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" quantity=\"2\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> day in great distress.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.1	item	I.º the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>an proper – transnivean of many tribes –\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2	item	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.1	item	1. Salt Traders of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName>. <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\" hand=\"#author\"><measure quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7</measure>–<measure quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.2	item	2. <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> Bhotheas agriculturists never living above <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><measure quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">7000</measure></del> <add place=\"intralinear\"><measure quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6000</measure></add> </subst> –\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.3	item	3.<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>º</orig> <reg /> </choice> Lamas renewed from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> who <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />take church preferment in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.1	item	1. Lepchas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> a charming<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> simple & attractive <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />people who live from <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"foot\">3</measure>–<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> never inhabit the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />same spot long<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> are idler than Bhotheas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> worship <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Demons & talk a very peculiar dialect<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig> –</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.2	item	<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> &</add> 3<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">& 4</del> the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c\" corresp=\"#e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59\" type=\"editorialNote\">Cove<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"medium\">tis</unclear></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59\" corresp=\"#e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c\" type=\"editorial\">In den veröffentlichten Übersetzungen dieses Briefes finden sich die Bezeichnungen „Covehs“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/BFP7VBMG\">Berghaus 1850c</bibl>, S. 5) und „Covetes“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/KFTMNWBQ\">Hooker, J. D. 1851a</bibl>, S. 248). In seinen „Himalayan Journals“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2KMISEKW\">Hooker, J. D. 1854</bibl>) erwähnte J.D. Hooker diese Stämme nicht, nannte sie jedoch in einem undatierten Manuskript <ref target=\"https://jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh/asset/3714\">(Kew 2022, JDH/1/10 f. 180)</ref>. <lb />Auch bei der Nennung der folgenden Stämme weichen die Drucke ab: „Huioos“ und „Geroings“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/BFP7VBMG\">Berghaus 1850c</bibl>, S. 5) sowie „Meehi“ und „Gerrings“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/KFTMNWBQ\">Hooker, J. D. 1851a</bibl>, S. 248).</note> & Mechi of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">Terai</placeName> who brave the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Fever.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.3	item	4<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"medium\">Huivos</unclear><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.4	item	5<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> Geroongs\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.5	item	6<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> Murmis\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.6	item	7<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> & Limbos\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.23	p	As the first <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">English</placeName> travellers we were received with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great kindness by the jolly monks & friars who<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"9v\" />gave us all their poor information on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />history of their country. Their books & institutions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alas their libraries & records had all been burned <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the Ghorkha wars & the garbled accounts they <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are now drawing up will be in future the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />only records of the <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">early</add> migrations of the Bhodist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />priests into <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName>, with the<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">y</del> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3660026\">Rajah</persName> who <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the simple Lepchas<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> desired from <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.24	p	<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> Campbell</persName> had hence to go <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">South</add> back to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjiling</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& I being very anxious to visit the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>South</expan> </choice> face of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> proceeded North. After many days <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of toilsome journeys through the most impracti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />cable country I camped at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flanks of the Great <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice> upon a bold bare <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />spur covered with snow & every where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abounding in evidences of great glacial floods <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />having once washed all over it. The ground <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />was frozen <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">16 inches</measure> but a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice> sunk <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2\" unit=\"foot\">2 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><add place=\"superlinear\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></add></del> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">6. inches</measure> stood considerably higher –. I hoped <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to have spent a week here but after 3 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />days of observations the snow fell so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heavily that we were obliged to retreat <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with precipitancy & in the middle of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-01\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">January</date> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />after 2 days of great exertion descended to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />valleys at the foot of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mt.</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice>. Thence returning <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>difft.</abbr> <expan>different</expan> </choice> route I visited the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5217773\">sacred Lake of <lb />Sikkim</placeName> & witnessed the simple worship of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the Bhudhists<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Thence to the oldest convents <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> where I staid a few days with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the monks<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & finally returned to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Darjiling</placeName>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.25	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.25.1	figure	<figDesc xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">Schematische Zeichnung der Region <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">Sikkim</placeName> von den Ebenen <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Indien</placeName>s bis zum <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> und den Grenzen zu <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">Nepal</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhutan</placeName>, mit verschiedenen Berggipfeln, Höhenangaben, Flüssen und Pässen, von <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Joseph Dalton Hooker</persName> in Tinte. Die Reiseroute Hookers ist in roter Tinte, die Linie des ewigen Schnees in blauer Tinte hervorgehoben.<anchor type=\"target\" xml:id=\"stop_lmn_zd5_jyb\" /></figDesc>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.26	p	In Geology I have been able to do a good <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deal. The <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">and</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">display</add> </subst> of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Granit\">granite</name> forming <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the tops of all the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stupendous features of its ou<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">t</add>bursts along <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the main range & at every flank & spur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> are wonderfully fine. <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>Perp.</abbr> <expan>Perpetual</expan> </choice></add> C<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst>iffs of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stratified rock <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4000\" unit=\"foot\">4000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in measured height<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />baked red & distorted <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">like shot silk the</del> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to a <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">e</del> <add place=\"across\">u</add> </subst>nparallel<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig><subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">e</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst></orig> <reg /> </choice>ed degree are traversed with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gigantic veins of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Quarz\">Quartz</name>ose <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Porphyr\">Porphyry</name><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Eurit\">Eurite</name> &c. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Detached <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>Mt</abbr> <expan>Mountain</expan> </choice></add> masses of the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Glimmerschiefer\">mica schists</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Gneis\">Gneiss</name> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are tossed up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & all is on a scale <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of confusion & grandeur that defies even <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recollection. I saw no <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kalkstein\">Limestone</name> – no fossils –<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"11r\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Glimmer\">Mica</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Tonschiefer\">clay-slate</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Gneis\">Gneiss</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Granit\">Granite</name>, here compose <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the whole <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> with the various clays often <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with 30 <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\">per</unclear>cent of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\">alumina</name> & the various endogenous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rocks varying in composition <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"low\" reason=\"illegible\">stick</unclear> through the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />exogenous in the grandest scale. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Feldspat\">Feldspar</name> abounds <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />disproportionally in the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Granit\">Granite</name> which contains <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I think both Soda & Potash. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Erz\">Ores</name> are <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>rariss</abbr> <expan>rarissime</expan> </choice><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> a little <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Zinn\">Tin</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Eisen\">Iron</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Chrom\">Chrome</name> & much <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Mangan\"><choice> <sic>mangamese</sic> <corr>mangenese</corr> </choice></name>. I found no <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">fine</hi> minerals<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> no volcanic matter – one warm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />spring of pure water – I have prepared 3 cross <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sections of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>Himal</abbr> <expan>Himalaya</expan> </choice></placeName> from the crest of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the plains illustrated Physically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> Geologically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Meteorolog.</abbr> <expan>Meteorologically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> Botanically<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig> & <choice> <abbr>Geolog</abbr> <expan>Geologically</expan> </choice></orig> <reg /> </choice>. In Magnetics & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Electricity I have done nothing. My map is very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />accurate with bearings & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Astron. obs.</abbr> <expan>Astronomical observations</expan> </choice> for Latitude – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />watches cannot go well in such countries.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.27	p	On my return after packing my collections I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />went to the foot of the hills<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> met my dear friend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> & we together explored the torrid valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">Terai</placeName> Botanically & Geologically keeping <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />up a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> register & tracing the Evidences of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water terraces & steppes which I now carry from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the plains up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. There I found <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kohle\">coal</name> (useless) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& faint traces of the tertiary deposits of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.W.</abbr> <expan>North West</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Graphit\">Plumbago</name><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Eisen\">Iron</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"Kalk\">Lime</name> in deposits from springs. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />The proofs of the gradual retirement of the waters <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from the foot of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> are beautiful<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> I traced <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />them to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"30\" unit=\"mile\">30 miles</measure> distant from the hills.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.28	p	Now I am preparing for another trip to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the Snows, the <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354\">Rajah</persName>’s tacit opposition & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rains will be obstacles, but I know & like <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the people & could I but get coolies who dared <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to cross the Passes even 4 I would still measure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> plain at the foot of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">Kinchin</placeName> but<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"11v\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"#unknown\">Chinese vigilance</hi> is insuperable, the people though <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />good & courageous in all other respects dread their <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018354\">Rajah</persName> & the Chinese, the former sells their family <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to Bhothan slavery on the slightest pretense & I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cannot get independent people but Bhothan <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />men, who fear no God nor man nor <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>JD</abbr> <expan>Joseph Dalton</expan> </choice> Hooker <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is the worst part of it<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & with whom <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I cannot get on. <gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /> I take 4 hoping to cross the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passes & have offered all the bribes my poor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />purse can command. I shall be some Months <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />away & hope to camp high up on the passes to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />take Simultaneous <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Met.</abbr> <expan>Meteorological</expan> </choice> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Obs.</abbr> <expan>Observations</expan> </choice> with <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Dorjiling</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">Calcutta</placeName>. – I send you a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb\">sketch plan</ref> with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>approx.</abbr> <expan>approximate</expan> </choice> position of the Passes I seek<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Lachen</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">Lachoon</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the former is <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">said</hi> to debouche on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plain of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">no descent</hi>. <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">H</add> </subst>ow very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hard it will be if I cannot get through! – How <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />curious is the reentrant <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>∠</orig> <reg>angle</reg> </choice> that po<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"3\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">liti</add> </subst>cal <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />makes here – still the water shed is in parallel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> – Food in these journeys is a great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />desideratum, there is no personal danger. For <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Bhotheas bully & oppose tacitly & will not fight.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.29	p	<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName> has returned to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5458460 https://www.geonames.org/1271883\">Ferozepore</placeName> ruined in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />health I fear – my own age & brothers as we are I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deeply deplore this – his sufferings have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great & the later ones added to the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361\">Affghan</placeName> impri<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sonment 8 years ago where he suffered with the worst<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have told on his <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">once</add> glorious constitution – he is en route <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017393 https://www.geonames.org/1256237\">Simlah</placeName> for his health & will join me in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-11\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">November</date>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I have given up all Idea of Upper <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">Assam</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> it is quite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impracti<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">a</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>able<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> – An explorer sent thither by <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />just been murdered in cold blood & the climate is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very unhealthy. <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName> has been to <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">Karakoram</placeName> Pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(a little too far <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> in your map.) – about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for 3 days traversed a plain of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17500\" unit=\"foot\">17500 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> (same as <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008047\">Pamir</placeName>) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& probably a continuation of the great <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b\" corresp=\"#e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15\" type=\"editorialNote\">nœud</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15\" corresp=\"#ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b\" type=\"editorial\">Noeuds (frz.): Knoten. Gemeint sind die Berggipfel.</note> at <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">Koenlun</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005299\">Belor</placeName>.<anchor xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"target\" xml:id=\"start_bfh_kf5_jyb\" />What a glorious approximation is your height of <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">Chumalari</placeName><anchor type=\"target\" xml:id=\"stop_bfh_kf5_jyb\" />to <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">Waugh</persName>’s measurements.</add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.30	p	<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\">This has been a sad season in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">India</placeName> – I have lost <choice> <sic>&</sic> <corr>an</corr> </choice> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0515023\">Uncle</persName> – <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020850 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1210970546\">Williams</persName> of the <choice> <abbr>Geol.</abbr> <expan>Geological</expan> </choice> Survey <lb />with whom I travelled 3 months both dead of Fever – <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0014045 http://d-nb.info/gnd/102766029\">McLelland</persName><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> who went to<pb n=\"11r-a\" />carry on the survey<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> took fever & had to break up the camp. My early friend <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0115971 https://d-nb.info/gnd/117673331\">Gardner</persName> <lb />at <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603\">Ceylon</placeName> a first rate Naturalist <del rendition=\"#s\">is</del> <subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">dead</del> <add place=\"across\">died</add> </subst> last <date when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">month</date><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & poor <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName>’s constitution <lb />is shattered. Hence I write in low spirits –</add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.31	p	<gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"insignificant\" /><address xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <addrLine>To</addrLine> <addrLine>The Baron von Humboldt</addrLine> <addrLine>&c &c &c</addrLine> <addrLine><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">Potsdam</placeName>.</addrLine> <addrLine><hi rendition=\"#uu\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">Berlin</placeName>.</hi> </addrLine> </address>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.32	p	<gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"insignificant\" />','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.1	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">in dem ersten <ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020421\">briefe</ref> von <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">hooker</persname>: <lb />schneelinie <choice> <abbr>nördl.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher</expan> </choice> abfall des <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> <lb />(trans <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">sutledge</placename> region) <choice> <abbr>lat</abbr> <expan>latitude</expan> </choice> 36° höhe <measure quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 feet</measure> <lb /> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"18764\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">18764 <choice> <abbr>par f.</abbr> <expan>pariser fuss</expan> </choice></measure>; südlicher abfall gegen <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">assam</placename> und <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092\">brahmaputra</placename> <measure quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15000 feet</measure> <choice> <abbr>od.</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"14072\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">14072 <choice> <abbr>par</abbr> <expan>pariser</expan> </choice> fuss</measure><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb />humboldt <ref xml:id=\"cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490\" corresp=\"#b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175\" type=\"editorialnote\">asie <choice> <abbr>centr.</abbr> <expan>centrale</expan> </choice> <choice> <abbr>vol</abbr> <expan>volume</expan> </choice> iii <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 326</ref><note xml:id=\"b59165ef-20b4-4db1-9165-ef20b4fdb175\" corresp=\"#cc22c79f-d993-48f4-a2c7-9fd99398f490\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>, iii, 326.</note>: <choice> <abbr>nördl abf.</abbr> <expan>nördlicher abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"15600\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">15600 <choice> <abbr>par f</abbr> <expan>pariser fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb /><choice> <abbr>südl abf.</abbr> <expan>südlicher abfall</expan> </choice> <measure quantity=\"12180\" unit=\"pied_de_roi\">12180 <choice> <abbr>par f</abbr> <expan>pariser fuss</expan> </choice></measure><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.2	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">hooker</persname> findet jetzt <choice> <abbr>südl.</abbr> <expan>südliche</expan> </choice> schneegrenze im <lb />meridian vor <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-ginga</placename> <measure quantity=\"14509\" unit=\"foot\">14509</measure>, <measure quantity=\"14100\" unit=\"foot\"><choice> <sic>1410</sic> <corr>14100</corr> </choice></measure> und <lb /><measure quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 feet</measure>.</foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.3	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">was <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">hooker</persname> meine<ref target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020432/start_bfh_kf5_jyb\"> <foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">glorious a<choice> <orig>p</orig> <reg>pp</reg> </choice>roximation of the hight <lb />of <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chamalari</placename></foreign></ref> sagt<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> bezieht sich auf mein<supplied cert=\"high\">e</supplied> alte <lb />behauptung<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dass der berg nicht <measure quantity=\"26000\" unit=\"foot\">26000 feet</measure> hoch <lb />sein kann<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> man hat ihn jezt nur <measure quantity=\"23929\" unit=\"foot\">23929 feet</measure> gefunden <lb />(<ref xml:id=\"aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a\" corresp=\"#b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7\" type=\"editorialnote\">asie centrale <choice> <abbr>t</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> iii <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 282</ref><note xml:id=\"b54e40aa-0979-43e8-8e40-aa097903e8e7\" corresp=\"#aaa0b179-4855-47a3-a0b1-79485537a34a\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/tkguvjev\">humboldt 1843</bibl>, iii, 282.</note>).</foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.4	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">man kann schreiben <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain (kunchin <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> kinchin) <lb />-junga</placename><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> in früheren briefen steht <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin-junga</placename> und <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">—-<choice> <sic>ju</sic> <corr>gi</corr> </choice>nga</placename><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.5	p	<foreign xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:lang=\"deu\">mr <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">waugh</persname><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der zuerst den <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename> maass<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb />hat nun au<subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">h</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>h den <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalgari</placename> (sic) <lb />gemessen: er ist eben so hoch <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <foreign xml:lang=\"eng\">a <lb />little higher</foreign> als <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename>. endresultat <lb />ist<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dass wenig unterschied zwischen <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb /><del rendition=\"#s\">cha</del> <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalaghiri</placename> <lb />und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005510\">deodangha</placename><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> der noch <lb />auf keiner carte steht<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied></foreign>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.6	p	<space xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" dim=\"horizontal\" />your long & most welcome <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />letter arrived when i was <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in </sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>travelling <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename> & was not received by me <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for many weeks after its arrival <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">here</add>. on <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my return <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">from</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">to</add> </subst> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjiling</placename> mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />had left the station on account of his <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />health & it was only on my joining <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />him last <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">month</date> in the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">terai</placename> that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i could talk with him about the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />contents of your letter. in the first place <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />he desires me to thank you with the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />greatest warmth & sincerity for the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kind & prompt attention you have <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">paid</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">given to <lb />our request</add> </subst>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the long letter you have written, the great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />compliment thus paid to us, & above all <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for the admirable & unexceptionable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plan you & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>prof.</abbr> <expan>professor</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname> have drawn <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />out. you cannot conceive what a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />load of trouble this has taken off our <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hands, nor what a prized memorial it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />will <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">ever</add> be, not only to ourselves, but to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the country, for whose benefit the charts <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are planned. that this first attempt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to instruct the youth of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">india</placename> in physical<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />science, & in their own tongue, should <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />be grounded on a plan of baron hum<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />boldt’s, gives a character to the undertaking <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that nothing else could. believe us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />we never <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">expected</add> you to have paid such attention <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the subject<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & that in doing so you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have done us the happiest service. the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />work shall go forth as the offspring of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />baron humboldt<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <reg>’</reg> </choice>s matured experience, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i am sure that it will not be felt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unworthy of you my kind friend, after <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />so many years of usefulness in other <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\">&</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">spheres</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& countries to have your name so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prominently associated with <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">the </del> <add place=\"intralinear\">an</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />undertaking which under whatever <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficulties must succeed in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">india</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.7	p	i <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">wrote shortly to <choice> <abbr>prof.</abbr> <expan>professor</expan> </choice> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname>,</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">requesting him</hi> <hi rendition=\"#uu\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">to delay</hi></hi> till we should <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hear whether the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>govt:</abbr> <expan>government</expan> </choice> would wish <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to take any part in & propose any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alterations to the plan<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> this they <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />do not & as nothing it appears to us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />can be better than the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">proposal</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">plan</add> </subst> you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>prof.</abbr> <expan>professor</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\">berghaus</persname> have made we think <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">it</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">the details</add> </subst> better left wholly to the judgement<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3r\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">of that distinguished & experienced man<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb />the money<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\">money</note> is lodged with my <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">father</persname> <lb />to be remitted exactly as you propose <lb />& i shall <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">write by this mail</hi> to <choice> <abbr>prof.</abbr> <expan>professor</expan> </choice> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\"><choice> <abbr>b.</abbr> <expan>berghaus</expan> </choice></persname> <lb />again.</hi> i wish the sum could be larger<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i am sure <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>prof.</abbr> <expan>professor</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118509470\"><choice> <abbr>b.</abbr> <expan>berghaus</expan> </choice></persname> deserves that it should, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />but mr. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> is no longer in the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />service, & our private means are limited<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.8	p	regarding your questions as to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heights of the great <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>himal</abbr> <expan>himalaya</expan> </choice></placename> peaks<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">:</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">1º</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">by 3 stations <lb />on the plains</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><measure quantity=\"28125.7\" unit=\"foot\">28125.7</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28182.6\" unit=\"foot\">28182.6</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28192.5\" unit=\"foot\">28192.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.4	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">by 4 stations <lb />within <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514\">sub <choice> <abbr>himal.</abbr> <expan>himalaya</expan> </choice></placename></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28177.4\" unit=\"foot\">28177.4</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.5	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28183.0\" unit=\"foot\">28183.0</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.6	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><measure quantity=\"28162.5\" unit=\"foot\">28162.5</measure></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.1.7	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><hi rendition=\"#u\"><measure quantity=\"28212.8\" unit=\"foot\">28212.8</measure></hi></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">mean <lb /><measure quantity=\"28176.6\" unit=\"foot\">28176.6.</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2	table	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.1	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">base measured<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">= <measure quantity=\"36685.77\" unit=\"foot\">36,685.77</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.2	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><choice> <abbr>dº</abbr> <expan>ditto</expan> </choice> by △ over 350′</cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">= <measure quantity=\"36685.30\" unit=\"foot\">36,685.30</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.9.2.3	row	<cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"><choice> <abbr>diff.</abbr> <expan>difference</expan> </choice> feet <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>english</expan> </choice></cell> <cell xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#right\"><choice> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice><measure quantity=\"0.47\" unit=\"foot\">0.47</measure></cell>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.10	p	2. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalgari</placename> hast just been remeasured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>col:</abbr> <expan>colonel</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">waugh</persname>. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>h</orig> <reg>h</reg> </choice>e believes its<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"3v\" />elevation to be considerably under<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>r<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ated</sic> <corr><g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rated</corr> </choice> – & that it will prove to be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />as high if not a very little higher <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.11	p	3. there is another peak between <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\" hand=\"#unknown\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gosaingthan</placename> <choice> <abbr>od</abbr> <expan>oder</expan> </choice> <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">dhayabung</placename> <lb /><ref xml:id=\"e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6\" corresp=\"#eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81\" type=\"editorialnote\">erdkunde <lb />iv, 8, 31, 32<choice> <orig> </orig> <reg>, </reg> </choice>90</ref><note xml:id=\"eec029c0-abf2-411d-8029-c0abf2811d81\" corresp=\"#e6eba74e-3aed-415d-aba7-4e3aed015dd6\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/i9tr2wmv\">ritter 1822–1859</bibl>, iv, 8, 31, 32, 90.</note> <lb /> </note><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\"><metamark>?</metamark></note> than<note place=\"inline\" hand=\"#unknown\"><metamark>?</metamark></note></placename> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename> – seen both <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename> valley & thence called <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005510\"><hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">“deodangha”</hi></placename> & also from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this has never been measured <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>till</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> since my last letter to you <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />nor even laid down on charts – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">but which <choice> <abbr>col.</abbr> <expan>colonel</expan> </choice> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">waugh</persname> considers <lb />as probably a very little higher <lb />than either <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename> or <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalgari</placename>.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.12	p	4<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">jawari</placename> i can give you no further <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />information at all. under any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />circumstances it ranks as a second <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />class peak in point of mere elevation.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.13	p	to conclude i have given you exactly all i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />know<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> i wish it were more definite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />but <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>col:</abbr> <expan>colonel</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">waugh</persname> looks upon an <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\" reason=\"illegible\">error</unclear> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of a foot in mensuration, as of more <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />importance than i do – & <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\">it</unclear></del> <add place=\"across\">he</add> </subst> speaks & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />writes with all the doubts i have given <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />you above. he concludes that there <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">can be <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">but little difference</hi> between <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalgari</placename>, <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005510\">deodhanga</placename> & <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename></hi> –</hi> that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />no other peaks approach these, that all<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">ii</fw>exceed <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">28000 <choice> <abbr>engl.</abbr> <expan>english</expan> </choice> feet</measure>. – curious as is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the problem of height<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the most interesting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to me is the position of the dominant masses; <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whether <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"medium\">of</unclear></del> <add place=\"superlinear\">great in</add> </subst> mean elevation of their mass or <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />actual height of a particular spire is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of less consequence. for it is where the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great accumulations of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>perp</abbr> <expan>perpetual</expan> </choice> snow are, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the watersheds will head. there <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are between <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>long</abbr> <expan>longitude</expan> </choice> 80° & 9<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">8</del> <add place=\"across\">0</add> </subst>°. 1<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice>º <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017210 https://www.geonames.org/1261991\">jawar</placename>. 2º <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dawalgri</placename>. 3º <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018439 https://www.geonames.org/1279688\">gossain than</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 4º<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>..</orig> <reg /> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005510\">deodhangha</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />5<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kanchain</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 6<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> 7<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>º</reg> </choice> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">s</del> <add place=\"across\">t</add> </subst>wo unnamed <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />peaks <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">of</del> not accurately measured in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhothan</placename>. mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> demonstrates <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that the great <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514\"><choice> <abbr>subhimal</abbr> <expan>subhimalayan</expan> </choice></placename> rivers have <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their sources in these, that there came <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the waters of the opposing faces of 2 contiguous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />peaks to converge to meet <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>in the</sic> <corr type=\"deleted\" /> </choice> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"covered\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> generally <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514\"><choice> <abbr>subhimal</abbr> <expan>subhimalaya</expan> </choice></placename> & form deltic basins<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>;</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by means of these basins we propose to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />divide the whole <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>himal.</abbr> <expan>himalaya</expan> </choice></placename> geographically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>ethnograph.</abbr> <expan>ethnographically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>zoolog.</abbr> <expan>zoologically</expan> </choice> & botanically. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for instance is the basin of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">teesta</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />where east feeders rise from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchan</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& are pushed all to the east, so as almost <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to meet the waters of <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">the</del> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which are pushed west. further west <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of this you will observe that the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />waters from the opposite faces of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />contiguous peaks meet within the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514\"><choice> <abbr>subhimal</abbr> <expan>subhimalaya</expan> </choice></placename> – here they do not; but<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"4v\" />still between the grand <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">south</add> spur of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> (<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020683\">singalelah</placename>) which runs from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />its summit to the plains, & the grand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />south spur of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename> which is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />also continuous to the plains, – all is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />one water shed<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> to explain this i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />send you a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb\">small sketch plan</ref> which <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />will also help to illustrate my recent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tour in the mountains.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.14	p	unfortunately the season of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">1848</date> was so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bad & the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018354\">rajah</persname> so strenuously <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />opposed my visiting <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kunchin</placename> in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that i was obliged to put off starting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />till the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">very end of october</date> & take a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />circuitous route in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename>. thus i was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />led to two <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> passes – the eastermost <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of there in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename> & to a fair exami<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nation of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>nw</abbr> <expan>northwest</expan> </choice>, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>sw.</abbr> <expan>southwest</expan> </choice> & latterly the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> limits of <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>perp.</abbr> <expan>perpetual</expan> </choice> snow upon the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great mountain. my chart is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hardly finished & as you may suppose <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the labor of such a work amongst <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mountains wherein known points <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are never visible is great.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.15	p	starting <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjeeling</placename> i crossed <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020683\">singalelah</placename> spur of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & descended to the feeders <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c\" corresp=\"#e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a\" type=\"editorialnote\">mai</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e3063059-6fc6-4d55-8630-596fc6ad558a\" corresp=\"#c072bc8a-0efc-42e1-b2bc-8a0efce2e13c\" type=\"editorial\">eventuell handelt es sich um den <placename ref=\"ed_as4_klb_5xb\">mai khola</placename>.</note> & <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6668900\">myong</placename> rivers. thence i<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5r\" />struck north intending to go by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the ridges to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> before proceeding <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> to the passes – my food beare<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">rs</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />here deserted me<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> they were people <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename> & the only ones thought to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />be equally fitted for the hot valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice>. i ha<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> thus to wait patiently <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />till the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-11\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">middle of <choice> <abbr>nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>november</expan> </choice></date> on a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mt</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice> of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> when i employed myself in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>met. observ.</abbr> <expan>meteorological observations</expan> </choice> & botany<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> sending out my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />remaining people to the distant villages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for coolies. with enough of them to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />carry my necessaries & leaving the food<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i struck <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> amongst deep gorges (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"foot\">3000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above sea) & ascended a very lofty <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />transverse ridge from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020683\">singalelah</placename> of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <lb /><choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> seeking a way to the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">tambur river</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />along which the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice> high road from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020520 https://www.geonames.org/12095475\">ilam</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">walloong</placename> on the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> frontier runs.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.16	p	reaching that <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">river</placename> when only <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2500\" unit=\"foot\">2500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the sea i ascended it getting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />foo<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"medium\">t</unclear></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> as best we could & carrying a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tropical vegetation up to amongst <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />those spurs of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> which are <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>perp.</abbr> <expan>perpetually</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snowed. i arrived at the limits of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"oryza sativa\">rice</name> cultivation & hinduism & the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"5v\" />commencement of a temperate zone <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">& bhothia inhabitants<choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice></add> on the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-11-25\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">25 <choice> <abbr>nov<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi>.</abbr> <expan>november</expan> </choice></date> – the change was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sudden from <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3\" corresp=\"#dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67\" type=\"editorialnote\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"bubalus\">bubalus</name></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dd6cb613-4f3f-421e-acb6-134f3f121e67\" corresp=\"#f19d40b0-4472-4096-9d40-b04472f096a3\" type=\"editorial\">der asiatische büffel (bubalus) ist eine untergattung der rinder (<name type=\"animal\">bovini</name>), im <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019329\">süden</placename> und südosten <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asiens</placename> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"oryza sativa\">rice</name> to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628\" corresp=\"#f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0\" type=\"editorialnote\"><name type=\"animal\" key=\"bos\">bos</name></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f3ed1327-5482-4451-ad13-2754822451f0\" corresp=\"#a2987d15-77e9-4a16-987d-1577e92a1628\" type=\"editorial\">das eigentliche rind (bos) ist eine untergattung der rinder (<name type=\"animal\">bovini</name>), in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002578\">asien</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890\">nordamerika</placename> verbreitet.</note> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"mais\">corn</name>. still ascending to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">walloong</placename> by stupendous gorges, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">third</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">2<hi rendition=\"#sup\">nd</hi></add> </subst> change from <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"bos\">bos</name> to <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"bison\">bison</name> (the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"yak\">yak</name>, whose progenitor is the wild <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bison {non descript} of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> plan) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />was mere gradual. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">walloong</placename> is the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020514\">cis <choice> <abbr>himal.</abbr> <expan>himalayan</expan> </choice></placename> commercial entrepot of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bhotheas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> here i was received with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />suspicion & every obstacles to my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proceeding to the passes organized, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />more effectually as the season was <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very late & food was <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>witheld</orig> <reg>withheld</reg> </choice>. happily <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i had a dozen bhotan men still <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with me<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> a set of villains feared by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mt:</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice> powers, & by dint of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bullying the authorities & threatening <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to let the bhotan men loose upon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />their store houses, i was allowed to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proceed <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">after</add> 2 days delay to the pass.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.17	p	<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">walloong village</placename> is about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"11000\" unit=\"foot\">11000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pass<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> 1½ days beyond, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">&</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">is</add> </subst> about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12\" unit=\"mile\">12 miles</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">north</del> <add place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>wnw</abbr> <expan>west north west</expan> </choice></add> </subst> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> top & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"25\" unit=\"mile\">25</measure> from the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />latter – we reached the summit in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />two days, with much difficulty, the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6r\" /><fw xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"folnum\">iii a</fw>ground deeply covered with <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">october</date> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />snow at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12000\" unit=\"foot\">12000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, which at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"13000\" unit=\"foot\">13000</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />does not melt till <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">march</date> following. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the summit was <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16700\" unit=\"foot\">16700 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, but still <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />3 marches from the plain of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is here cut off by 2 lofty <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ranges<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> spurs of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> projecting <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>nw.</abbr> <expan>northwest</expan> </choice> on that plain of lower elevation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than my position, but cut off by now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heavily snowed valleys. i could not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />get one coolie to the top of the pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& at this season to have proceeded to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> without <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"animal\" key=\"yak\">yaks</name> would be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impossible <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\">were</unclear> even there no chinese <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />guard at the foot of the 3.<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">d</hi> range. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />as near as i could ascertain the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>perp.</abbr> <expan>perpetual</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">snow line <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">is here <measure quantity=\"14500\" unit=\"foot\">14500 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></hi></hi> & from what <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i afterwards saw i still think this is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />not underestimated but with such <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a mash as the <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1848-10\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">october</date> fall it is quite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impossible to speak accurately.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.18	p	this not being the easternmost pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />over the range into <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, & ergo not <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the nearest accessible point to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />top in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> i determined on <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my return to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020622 https://www.geonames.org/1282615\">walloong</placename> to visit the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />valley <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>e.</abbr> <expan>east</expan> </choice> of this whence a loftier pass<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hardly used, leads to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> – descending <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020701 https://www.geonames.org/1282723\">tambur</placename> i turned up the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">yangma</placename> <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"6v\" />valley which expanded into a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />broad treeless gorge full of lake beds<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the lake beds are confined by enormous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dams of rock which have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />projected across the valley when the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />whole was under water. when in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />short the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> plain was accumulating <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />its deposits of gravel (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">1000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> thick <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have been measured in <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>w.</abbr> <expan>west</expan> </choice> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the waters standing at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"15000\" unit=\"foot\">15000</measure> in the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020878 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">yangma valley</placename> have left on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flanks of that valley parallel roads <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />as beautiful as those of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020504 https://www.geonames.org/2639027\">glen roy</placename> in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010167 https://www.geonames.org/2638360\">scotland</placename>. lateral gulleys have floated <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rocks into the valley upon bergs <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bridging it completely across, so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that on the retirement of the waters <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />these bridges formed dams. the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />terraces are on both sides the valley <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />above the lake beds<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> are perfectly <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parallel<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> rise in steppes along the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />steep <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice> faces<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & are every where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />strewed with enormous blocks of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rock – in these lateral glacial valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />small patches of glacial ice now <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alone are found<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & the gravel & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rubbish are disposed by them, as the<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"7r\" />enormous blocks (<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20\" unit=\"yard\">20 yds</measure> long) were by <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the greater ice action in past eras.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.19	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.19.1	figure	<figdesc xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">schematische zeichnung des flußtales des <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h4126024 https://www.geonames.org/12534350\">yangma khola</placename>, des<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020877 https://www.geonames.org/8005421\">yangma</placename> sowie der angrenzenden hügel und terrassen, von <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">joseph dalton hooker</persname> in tinte.</figdesc>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.20	p	from this we descended to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020876\">yalloong</placename> valley intending to go up it <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020876\">yalloong</placename> village & thence cross <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the great southern spur of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(called <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020683\">singalelah</placename>) into <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to our distress for we had but one <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#mmm\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">day’s more food <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">the <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020876\">village</placename></hi> was <lb />found <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">deeply</hi> buried <hi rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012069 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118554700\">in snow</hi></hi> & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />inhabitants <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">had</add> fled to the nearest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />villages in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename>. to cross <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020683\">singalelah</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from hence, where it could not be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />less than <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> was impossible & we <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hence<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> had no choice but to follow<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"8v\" />the valley down <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.w.</abbr> <expan>south west</expan> </choice> & seek the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />first villages – which we reached <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on the thir<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" quantity=\"2\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">d</add> </subst> day in great distress.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.1	item	i.º the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>an proper – transnivean of many tribes –\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2	item	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.1	item	1. salt traders of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename>. <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\" hand=\"#author\"><measure quantity=\"7000\" unit=\"foot\">7</measure>–<measure quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure></add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.2	item	2. <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> bhotheas agriculturists never living above <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#erased\"><measure quantity=\"1000\" unit=\"foot\">7000</measure></del> <add place=\"intralinear\"><measure quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6000</measure></add> </subst> –\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.21.1.2.1.3	item	3.<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>º</orig> <reg /> </choice> lamas renewed from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> who <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />take church preferment in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1	list	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.1	item	1. lepchas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> a charming<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> simple & attractive <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />people who live from <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"foot\">3</measure>–<measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6000\" unit=\"foot\">6000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> never inhabit the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />same spot long<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> are idler than bhotheas<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> worship <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />demons & talk a very peculiar dialect<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig> –</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.2	item	<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">2<choice> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> &</add> 3<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">& 4</del> the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c\" corresp=\"#e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59\" type=\"editorialnote\">cove<unclear reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"medium\">tis</unclear></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e7e647ab-0cd9-441f-a647-ab0cd9741f59\" corresp=\"#e4c495a7-51d7-4cb9-8495-a751d7ecb93c\" type=\"editorial\">in den veröffentlichten Übersetzungen dieses briefes finden sich die bezeichnungen „covehs“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/bfp7vbmg\">berghaus 1850c</bibl>, s. 5) und „covetes“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/kftmnwbq\">hooker, j. d. 1851a</bibl>, s. 248). in seinen „himalayan journals“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2kmisekw\">hooker, j. d. 1854</bibl>) erwähnte j.d. hooker diese stämme nicht, nannte sie jedoch in einem undatierten manuskript <ref target=\"https://jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh/asset/3714\">(kew 2022, jdh/1/10 f. 180)</ref>. <lb />auch bei der nennung der folgenden stämme weichen die drucke ab: „huioos“ und „geroings“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/bfp7vbmg\">berghaus 1850c</bibl>, s. 5) sowie „meehi“ und „gerrings“ (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/kftmnwbq\">hooker, j. d. 1851a</bibl>, s. 248).</note> & mechi of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">terai</placename> who brave the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fever.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.3	item	4<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"medium\">huivos</unclear><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg type=\"deleted\" /> </choice>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.4	item	5<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> geroongs\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.5	item	6<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> murmis\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.22.1.6	item	7<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig /> <reg>.</reg> </choice> & limbos\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.23	p	as the first <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">english</placename> travellers we were received with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great kindness by the jolly monks & friars who<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"9v\" />gave us all their poor information on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />history of their country. their books & institutions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alas their libraries & records had all been burned <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the ghorkha wars & the garbled accounts they <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are now drawing up will be in future the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />only records of the <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">early</add> migrations of the bhodist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />priests into <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename>, with the<del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">y</del> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3660026\">rajah</persname> who <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the simple lepchas<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> desired from <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.24	p	<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012858 http://viaf.org/viaf/68144648417618811837\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> campbell</persname> had hence to go <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">south</add> back to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjiling</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& i being very anxious to visit the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>s.</abbr> <expan>south</expan> </choice> face of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> proceeded north. after many days <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of toilsome journeys through the most impracti<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />cable country i camped at <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"14000\" unit=\"foot\">14000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />flanks of the great <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice> upon a bold bare <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />spur covered with snow & every where <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />abounding in evidences of great glacial floods <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />having once washed all over it. the ground <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />was frozen <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">16 inches</measure> but a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>therm.</abbr> <expan>thermometer</expan> </choice> sunk <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"2\" unit=\"foot\">2 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><add place=\"superlinear\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></add></del> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"6\" unit=\"zoll_englisch\">6. inches</measure> stood considerably higher –. i hoped <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to have spent a week here but after 3 <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />days of observations the snow fell so <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />heavily that we were obliged to retreat <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with precipitancy & in the middle of <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-01\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">january</date> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />after 2 days of great exertion descended to the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />valleys at the foot of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mt.</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice>. thence returning <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>difft.</abbr> <expan>different</expan> </choice> route i visited the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5217773\">sacred lake of <lb />sikkim</placename> & witnessed the simple worship of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the bhudhists<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> thence to the oldest convents <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> where i staid a few days with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the monks<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & finally returned to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">darjiling</placename>.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.25	p	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.25.1	figure	<figdesc xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">schematische zeichnung der region <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010238 https://www.geonames.org/1256312\">sikkim</placename> von den ebenen <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">indien</placename>s bis zum <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> und den grenzen zu <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001596 https://www.geonames.org/1282988\">nepal</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhutan</placename>, mit verschiedenen berggipfeln, höhenangaben, flüssen und pässen, von <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">joseph dalton hooker</persname> in tinte. die reiseroute hookers ist in roter tinte, die linie des ewigen schnees in blauer tinte hervorgehoben.<anchor type=\"target\" xml:id=\"stop_lmn_zd5_jyb\" /></figdesc>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.26	p	in geology i have been able to do a good <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deal. the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">and</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">display</add> </subst> of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"granit\">granite</name> forming <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the tops of all the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> above <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>, the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stupendous features of its ou<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">t</add>bursts along <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the main range & at every flank & spur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> are wonderfully fine. <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>perp.</abbr> <expan>perpetual</expan> </choice></add> c<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">u</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst>iffs of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />stratified rock <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4000\" unit=\"foot\">4000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> in measured height<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />baked red & distorted <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">like shot silk the</del> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to a <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">e</del> <add place=\"across\">u</add> </subst>nparallel<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig><subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">e</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst></orig> <reg /> </choice>ed degree are traversed with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />gigantic veins of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"quarz\">quartz</name>ose <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"porphyr\">porphyry</name><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"eurit\">eurite</name> &c. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />detached <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\"><choice> <abbr>mt</abbr> <expan>mountain</expan> </choice></add> masses of the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"glimmerschiefer\">mica schists</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"gneis\">gneiss</name> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />are tossed up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"20000\" unit=\"foot\">20000 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> & all is on a scale <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of confusion & grandeur that defies even <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />recollection. i saw no <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kalkstein\">limestone</name> – no fossils –<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"11r\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"glimmer\">mica</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"tonschiefer\">clay-slate</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"gneis\">gneiss</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"granit\">granite</name>, here compose <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the whole <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>himal.</abbr> <expan>himalaya</expan> </choice></placename> with the various clays often <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with 30 <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\">per</unclear>cent of <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\">alumina</name> & the various endogenous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rocks varying in composition <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"low\" reason=\"illegible\">stick</unclear> through the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />exogenous in the grandest scale. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"feldspat\">feldspar</name> abounds <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />disproportionally in the <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"granit\">granite</name> which contains <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i think both soda & potash. <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"erz\">ores</name> are <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>rariss</abbr> <expan>rarissime</expan> </choice><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> a little <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"zinn\">tin</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"eisen\">iron</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"chrom\">chrome</name> & much <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"mangan\"><choice> <sic>mangamese</sic> <corr>mangenese</corr> </choice></name>. i found no <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">fine</hi> minerals<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> no volcanic matter – one warm <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />spring of pure water – i have prepared 3 cross <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sections of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\"><choice> <abbr>himal</abbr> <expan>himalaya</expan> </choice></placename> from the crest of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the plains illustrated physically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> geologically<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>meteorolog.</abbr> <expan>meteorologically</expan> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> botanically<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig> & <choice> <abbr>geolog</abbr> <expan>geologically</expan> </choice></orig> <reg /> </choice>. in magnetics & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />electricity i have done nothing. my map is very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />accurate with bearings & <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>astron. obs.</abbr> <expan>astronomical observations</expan> </choice> for latitude – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />watches cannot go well in such countries.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.27	p	on my return after packing my collections i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />went to the foot of the hills<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> met my dear friend <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> & we together explored the torrid valleys <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020707 https://www.geonames.org/1282711\">terai</placename> botanically & geologically keeping <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />up a <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>met.</abbr> <expan>meteorological</expan> </choice> register & tracing the evidences of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water terraces & steppes which i now carry from <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the plains up to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"16000\" unit=\"foot\">16000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. there i found <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kohle\">coal</name> (useless) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& faint traces of the tertiary deposits of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.w.</abbr> <expan>north west</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"graphit\">plumbago</name><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"eisen\">iron</name> & <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"mineral\" key=\"kalk\">lime</name> in deposits from springs. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the proofs of the gradual retirement of the waters <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from the foot of the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mts</abbr> <expan>mountains</expan> </choice> are beautiful<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> i traced <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />them to <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"30\" unit=\"mile\">30 miles</measure> distant from the hills.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.28	p	now i am preparing for another trip to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the snows, the <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018354\">rajah</persname>’s tacit opposition & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rains will be obstacles, but i know & like <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the people & could i but get coolies who dared <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to cross the passes even 4 i would still measure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> plain at the foot of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000349 https://www.geonames.org/1283259\">kinchin</placename> but<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"11v\" /><hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\" hand=\"#unknown\">chinese vigilance</hi> is insuperable, the people though <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />good & courageous in all other respects dread their <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018354\">rajah</persname> & the chinese, the former sells their family <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to bhothan slavery on the slightest pretense & i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cannot get independent people but bhothan <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />men, who fear no god nor man nor <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>jd</abbr> <expan>joseph dalton</expan> </choice> hooker <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which is the worst part of it<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & with whom <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i cannot get on. <gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" unit=\"words\" quantity=\"1\" /> i take 4 hoping to cross the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />passes & have offered all the bribes my poor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />purse can command. i shall be some months <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />away & hope to camp high up on the passes to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />take simultaneous <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>met.</abbr> <expan>meteorological</expan> </choice> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>obs.</abbr> <expan>observations</expan> </choice> with <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">dorjiling</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004\">calcutta</placename>. – i send you a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020432/start_lmn_zd5_jyb\">sketch plan</ref> with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>approx.</abbr> <expan>approximate</expan> </choice> position of the passes i seek<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">lachen</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020711 https://www.geonames.org/1186027\">lachoon</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> the former is <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">said</hi> to debouche on the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plain of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, with <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">no descent</hi>. <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"1\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">h</add> </subst>ow very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hard it will be if i cannot get through! – how <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />curious is the reentrant <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>∠</orig> <reg>angle</reg> </choice> that po<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap reason=\"covered\" unit=\"chars\" quantity=\"3\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">liti</add> </subst>cal <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />makes here – still the water shed is in parallel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> – food in these journeys is a great <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />desideratum, there is no personal danger. for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bhotheas bully & oppose tacitly & will not fight.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.29	p	<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname> has returned to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5458460 https://www.geonames.org/1271883\">ferozepore</placename> ruined in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />health i fear – my own age & brothers as we are i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />deeply deplore this – his sufferings have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great & the later ones added to the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361\">affghan</placename> impri<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sonment 8 years ago where he suffered with the worst<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have told on his <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">once</add> glorious constitution – he is en route <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017393 https://www.geonames.org/1256237\">simlah</placename> for his health & will join me in <date xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" when=\"1849-11\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">november</date>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i have given up all idea of upper <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253\">assam</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> it is quite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />impracti<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">a</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>able<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> – an explorer sent thither by <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />just been murdered in cold blood & the climate is <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very unhealthy. <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname> has been to <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017455 https://www.geonames.org/7449791\">karakoram</placename> pass <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(a little too far <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>n.</abbr> <expan>north</expan> </choice> in your map.) – about <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"18000\" unit=\"foot\">18000 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg>,</reg> </choice> he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for 3 days traversed a plain of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"17500\" unit=\"foot\">17500 <choice> <abbr>ft.</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> (same as <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008047\">pamir</placename>) <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& probably a continuation of the great <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b\" corresp=\"#e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15\" type=\"editorialnote\">nœud</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e6e2b8bc-78d9-4bdc-a2b8-bc78d99bdc15\" corresp=\"#ffb8e263-8a0a-4c76-b8e2-638a0a9c763b\" type=\"editorial\">noeuds (frz.): knoten. gemeint sind die berggipfel.</note> at <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">koenlun</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005299\">belor</placename>.<anchor xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"target\" xml:id=\"start_bfh_kf5_jyb\" />what a glorious approximation is your height of <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017328 https://www.geonames.org/1252607\">chumalari</placename><anchor type=\"target\" xml:id=\"stop_bfh_kf5_jyb\" />to <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006264 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117155829\">waugh</persname>’s measurements.</add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.30	p	<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\">this has been a sad season in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">india</placename> – i have lost <choice> <sic>&</sic> <corr>an</corr> </choice> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0515023\">uncle</persname> – <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020850 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1210970546\">williams</persname> of the <choice> <abbr>geol.</abbr> <expan>geological</expan> </choice> survey <lb />with whom i travelled 3 months both dead of fever – <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0014045 http://d-nb.info/gnd/102766029\">mclelland</persname><supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> who went to<pb n=\"11r-a\" />carry on the survey<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> took fever & had to break up the camp. my early friend <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0115971 https://d-nb.info/gnd/117673331\">gardner</persname> <lb />at <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603\">ceylon</placename> a first rate naturalist <del rendition=\"#s\">is</del> <subst> <del rendition=\"#ow\">dead</del> <add place=\"across\">died</add> </subst> last <date when=\"1849-03\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">month</date><choice> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> & poor <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname>’s constitution <lb />is shattered. hence i write in low spirits –</add>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.31	p	<gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"insignificant\" /><address xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <addrline>to</addrline> <addrline>the baron von humboldt</addrline> <addrline>&c &c &c</addrline> <addrline><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008392 https://www.geonames.org/2852458\">potsdam</placename>.</addrline> <addrline><hi rendition=\"#uu\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">berlin</placename>.</hi> </addrline> </address>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020432:1.32	p	<gap xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"insignificant\" />'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.1	p	Très sensible, Monsieur, à la confiance que Vous avez bien voulu<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">montrer</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">témoigner</add> </subst> et que je dois sans doute à l’affectueuse bienveillance<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dont m’honore <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mr</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> le <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012685 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116316985\">Chevalier d’Araújo</persName>, j’ai étudié les documens <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui traitent de la convention que Vous avez si heureusement conclue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et qui sera sans doute adoptée dans des momens plus calmes. Lors <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la paix de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">Paris</placeName> j’avois déjà été invité par le <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006315 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806645\">Duc de Wellington</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de rédiger un mémoire sur les limites de la Guiane portugaise qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a été publiée dans la „Collection diplomatique de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015624 http://d-nb.info/gnd/100268935\">Schöll</persName>“ après avoir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />joui de la haute approbation de Votre Cour. Les incertitudes qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont régné si longtemps sur les limites des possessions brésiliennes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le bassin du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName>, ont pris naissance, en grandes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parties de la préférence, qu’on a voulu donner à de vagues suppo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sitions sur le point où le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">est</add> traversé <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">par</add> l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002500\">équateur</placeName> aux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />indications plus simples et plus <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">nécessaires</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">rassurantes</add> </subst> (là où manquait toute <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />observation de latitude) des confluents de deux fleuves<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Lorsque <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mr</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004243 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118778390\">de La Condamine</persName> venoit au <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">Grand Pará</placeName> on croyoit cette <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">ville</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />placée sous l’équateur <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">même</add>: il la trouvoit de 1° 28′ au sud de l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />équateur. Pendant un demi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>siècle on a été persuadé <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">q</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">dans</add> </subst> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Capitainerie générale de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007134 https://www.geonames.org/3646738\">Caracas</placeName> que l’habile Ingénieur <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7493530\"><choice> <abbr>D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi></abbr> <expan>Don</expan> </choice> <lb />Gabriel Clavero</persName> avoit construit le fortin de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">San Carlos <lb />del Río Negro</placeName> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">l’a</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">là</add> </subst> où passait l’équateur. Aucune observa<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tion astronomique n’avoit été faite dans ce lieu avant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moi. La „Real Expedición“ des limites de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">Solano</persName> n’a pas depassé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le confluent du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011098 https://www.geonames.org/3794011\">Guaviare</placeName> et de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">l’Orénoque</placeName>. J’ai trouvé le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Fortin de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">San Carlos</placeName> par 1° 53′ 42″ de latitude boréale. J’approuve <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beaucoup, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Messieur</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Monsieur</corr> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> la sagesse avec laquelle dans Votre négociation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">n’avez</add> (avec les intentions les plus conciliatrices) pas insisté sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des agrandissements de territoire et adopté, pour sortir <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">des siècles</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">des longues</add> </subst> incertitudes qui naissent des vagues expressions de l’ancien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Traité du 11 octobre 1777, le principe de l’<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">uti</hi> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">possidentis</hi> de 1810. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous avez très bien senti que ce qu’il y a de plus important <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour faire sortir ces sauvages contrées de leur état d’isolement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et d’abandon industriel, c’est d’appaiser les antipathies nationales <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et de profiter, par une libre navigation, de cet admirable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entrelacement de rivières qui, comme un don bienfaisant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">p</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">P</add> </subst>rovidence, a été accordé, assez inutilement jusqu’ici <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aux peuples de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150\">Amérique du Sud</placeName><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"intralinear\">.</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">, surtout à ceux qui sont <lb />placées <unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"low\">simultanément</unclear></del> </subst><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"words\" /></del><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"high\">et</unclear> Brésil</del> C’est sur ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />point de vue que, de retour de l’expédition de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en 1800, <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">que</del> j’ai taché de fixer l’attention du Gouvernement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />espagnol, dans <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c306e958-5894-45d1-86e9-585894f5d156\" corresp=\"#c9868adc-c0be-494c-868a-dcc0bef94c42\" type=\"editorialNote\">un Rapport</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c9868adc-c0be-494c-868a-dcc0bef94c42\" corresp=\"#c306e958-5894-45d1-86e9-585894f5d156\" type=\"editorial\">Humboldt vermerkt in seinem Amerikanischen Reisetagebuch, dass er am 3. August, 29. September und 24. November 1800 an den Staatsminister <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002270 https://viaf.org/viaf/163178085/\">Mariano Luis de Urquijo</persName> geschrieben habe (SBB-PK, Handschriftenabteilung, Nachl. Alexander von Humboldt, Tagebücher der Amerikanischen Reise, III, Bl. 100v). Diese drei Briefe konnten bislang nicht aufgefunden werden.</note> que j’adressai au Ministre des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />affaires étrangères d’alors, le Chevalier d’<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002270 https://viaf.org/viaf/163178085/\">Urquijo</persName>, je disais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alors: „Lo que seria lo mas digno de ser obtenido por el <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />medio de mutuas concesiones seria una libertad entera y <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />reciproca de comercio en estas magistuosos rios, el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orinoco</placeName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName> y el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> ó <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010983 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">Guainía</placeName> y el <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008689 https://www.geonames.org/3694960\">Marañón</placeName>. Nada <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seria mas propio para fomentar la prosperidad in unos <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />payses tan atrasados en el cultivo de los tierras, nada mas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proprio para disminuir la infeliz y irracional antipatia <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">que</add> </subst> existe desgraciadamente entre las naciones limitancas.“\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.2	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />Monsieur le Ministre Résident et Amendador <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi></abbr> <expan>Don</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004558 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117058777\">Miguel M. Lisboa</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me fait l’honneur de m’adresser à la fin de Sa lettre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(en date du 4 août 54) dont Il a bien voulu m’honorer, deux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">demandes</add> </subst> spéciales, auxquelles je tacherai de répondre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec franchise:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.3	p	1° Avant l’expédition de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">Solano</persName> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>c. a. d.</abbr> <expan>c’est-à-dire</expan> </choice> vers l’année 1750, la possession de fait des Portugais sur le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> s’étendait-elle au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName> ?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.4	p	Il y a eu certainement (bien avant que les Espagnols ont <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />établi des missions sur l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010507 https://www.geonames.org/3689453\">Atapabo</placeName>, le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName> et le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName>), depuis les établissemens portugais, formés chez les Marabitaires, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de tems en tems, des incursions vers le Nord, au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName> par le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016324 https://www.geonames.org/3664591\">Cababury</placeName> et le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008011 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">Pacimoni</placeName>. Vous trouverez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />même sur ma grande carte de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName> (<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Pl.</abbr> <expan>Planche</expan> </choice> 16 de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mon <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/RKBBPG4A\">Atlas géographique et physique</bibl> du Voyage) inscrite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />près d’un lac (par le 3° de latitude de nord) les mots suivants: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">au bord d’un</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">c’est sur les bords de ce</add> </subst> lac, à l’est du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008771 https://www.geonames.org/3632520\">Río <lb />Mavaca</placeName> que les Portugais s’introduisent par le <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">arastradero</hi>) qui va du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010215 https://www.geonames.org/3626853\">Río Siapa</placeName>, affluent du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />au <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008771 https://www.geonames.org/3632520\">Río Mavaca</placeName>, pour cueillir le fruit aromatique du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"Laurus pucheri\">Laurier Puchery</name> et la <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"Smilax\">Salsepareille</name>, article d’exportation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">Pará</placeName>. On parvenait aussi à l’est de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005679 https://www.geonames.org/3638075/la-esmeralda.html\">Esmeralda</placeName>, là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />où j’ai été et <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mr</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Schomburgk</persName>, 30 ans après moi, le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plus près des sources de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName>. C’étoient de ce côté<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">des</add> incursions temporaires, ce n’était pas une <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">possession</hi> de fait.<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\" hand=\"#author\"><metamark />Si des aventuriers <lb /><subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">portugais</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">indiens</add> </subst> mêlés à <lb />quelques colons portu<lb break=\"no\" />gais poussaient souvent <lb />leurs incursions hostiles <lb />jusqu’aux eaux du <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">Rio <lb />Temi</placeName> et du <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">Tuamini</placeName> <lb />(avant 1755) c’étoit <lb />pour faire des esclaves, <lb />„aller à la conquête des <lb />âmes“ et les vendre au <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> portugais. <lb />L’établissement de <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">Javita</placeName> <lb />sur le <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">Tuamini</placeName> <lb /><del rendition=\"#s\">établissement <subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">espagnol</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">chrétien</add> </subst></del> existoit <lb />sans doute mais comme <lb />village indien, sous la <lb />domination d’un chef <lb />indien du nom de <lb /><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016200\">Javita</persName><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Les premiers <lb />blancs que le Père <lb /><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020820\">Roman</persName>, en février 1744, <lb />rencontra en passant le <lb />premier l’<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName> <lb />au <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> fûrent <lb />des portugais, marchands <lb />d’esclaves „de la tropa <lb />de rescate“. Les Gupunaves <lb />leur vendaient les pri<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />sonniers qu’ils ne man<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />geaient pas. Ce n’est pas <lb />dans le village Indien <subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">où</add> </subst> <lb />dominait le chef <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016200\">Javita</persName>, <lb />c’est dans un des établisse<lb break=\"no\" />mens portugais du <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio <lb />Negro</placeName> que le père <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020820\">Roman</persName> <lb />attendit l’arrivée du <lb />Jésuite portugais <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020894\">Avoga<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dri</persName> qui vint du <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">Pará</placeName> (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DR2NAW3J\">Voyage</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> II, <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>pages</expan> </choice> 416 et <lb />537).</note> Les portugais en 1750 n’ont <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"superlinear\">eu je crois</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">eu</del> </subst> aucun établissement, aucune culture au nord du point où entre le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">Cassiquiare</placeName>, au nordest du rocher <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016257 https://www.geonames.org/12097194\">Culimacari</placeName> sur lequel j’ai bivouaqué avec <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mr.</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003476 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118661604\">Bonpland</persName> !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.5	p	2° Les limites du traité du 25 <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>nov.</abbr> <expan>novembre</expan> </choice> 1852 <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">sont elles d’accord</del> <add place=\"intralinear\"> <lb />sont<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>elles d’accord</add> </subst> avec ce que Vous avez manifesté dans la Relation de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Votre</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">Vos</corr> </choice> Voyages aux Régions équinoxiales ? <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Je n’ai <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">touché</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">visité</add> </subst> les eaux du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> pas à l’ouest du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />point où <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">cette rivière</add> reçoit les eaux du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">Caño Pimichin</placeName>, étant venu à pié <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />travers <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>la</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">le</corr> </choice> forêt, de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">Javita</placeName> (mission du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">Rio Tuamini</placeName>) au terme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> sur le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">Caño Pimichin</placeName>.J’ai <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> pu receuillir<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je crois<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> des renseignemens assez précis sur les lieux que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous nommez dans le traité. Ma Carte de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orénoque</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> offre le confluent de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002483 https://www.geonames.org/3689801\">Apoporis</placeName> (qui reçoit le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020658 https://www.geonames.org/3661880\">Taraíra</placeName>) avec le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">Yupurá</placeName>, confluent <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">per</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">uqui</add> </subst> est à 1° <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">au sud</hi> de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’équateur et par lequel Vous commencez Vos limites <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>art.</abbr> <expan>article</expan> </choice> 1<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">er</hi> dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le Traité<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"mBottom\" hand=\"#author\"><metamark />Je n’ai trop compris pourquoi ce traité dans le Mémoire de <lb /><choice> <abbr>Mr</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020789 http://viaf.org/viaf/4040885\">Lleras</persName> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 32 présente d’autres noms de lieux comme limites <lb />que le traité daté du 25 <choice> <abbr>Nov.</abbr> <expan>Novembre</expan> </choice> 1852 du <hi rendition=\"#u\">Diario</hi> des Debates <choice> <abbr>nº</abbr> <expan>numéro</expan> </choice> 23 <lb />qui commence non par le <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020658 https://www.geonames.org/3661880\">Río Taraíra</placeName>, mais par les sources du <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020657 https://www.geonames.org/3794829\">Memachí</placeName> que <lb />j’ignore. Il me reste aussi des doutes <del rendition=\"#s\">sur</del> (<choice> <abbr>Mém.</abbr> <expan>Mémoire</expan> </choice> de <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020789 http://viaf.org/viaf/4040885\">Lleras</persName> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 32) sur la juste <lb />application des mots rive droite et gauche<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> L’<placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002483 https://www.geonames.org/3689801\">Apoporis</placeName> et le <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">Yupurá</placeName> <lb />coulant du Nordouest au Sudest ou du Nord au Sud<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> les <lb />rives gauches sont septentrionales ou orientales. Comment <lb />ce qui est au<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà de ces rives gauches ne seroit-<lb break=\"no\" />il pas de <subst> <add place=\"mBottom\"><metamark /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001610\">Nueva Gran<supplied cert=\"high\">a</supplied>da</placeName></add> <del rendition=\"#s\">Venezuela</del> </subst> ? Je me trompe peut<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>être<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb />mais cette note ne change rien au texte <lb />de ma lettre.</note> daté du 25 juillet 1853: Ma Carte offre les <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Ríos</hi> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002502 https://www.geonames.org/3689773\">Aquio</placeName>, <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009466 https://www.geonames.org/3666924\">Tomo</placeName>,<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">Uaupés</placeName> et <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020660 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">Xié</placeName>. Je placerais <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009903 https://www.geonames.org/3669578\">l’Île de San José</placeName> près de la <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010872 https://www.geonames.org/3644839\">Caverne</placeName> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">de <lb />Coucuy</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">ou</add> </subst> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Harem</hi> (lieu de débauche) du célèbre Chef indien <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013115\">Cocuy</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">San Carlos del Rio Negro</placeName> et <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009908 https://www.geonames.org/3663473\">San José de Maravitanos</placeName> (là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’on devait me faire prisonnier) par les 1° 40′ de latitude nord. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />C’est cette île qu’on regarde aujourd’hui comme frontière. Je crois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avoir pu donner (<bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DR2NAW3J\">Voyage <choice> <abbr>éd.</abbr> <expan>édition</expan> </choice> in 4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">to</hi></bibl> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>T.</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> II. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 459) des renseignements <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />très curieux sur les véritables sources <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">des</del> <add place=\"across\">du</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010983 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">Guainía</placeName> et sur le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cours supérieur du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">Uaupés</placeName> que j’ai dus à un moine très <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />judicieux de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>St</abbr> <expan>Saint</expan> </choice> François, le Gardien Fray <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002217\">Francisco Pugnet</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la mission des Andajuies<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Il était venu des sources du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">Yupurá</placeName> (<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">Caquetá</placeName>) aux sources du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011098 https://www.geonames.org/3794011\">Guaviare</placeName> en partant de <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">la</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">la</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mission du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020655 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">Caguán</placeName>. Je n’ai rien trouvé, Monsieur, dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Votre <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">convention</hi> que soit contraire aux notions géographiques <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que j’ai pu acquérir. Récemment il a paru à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">Londres</placeName> le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Voyage d’un Naturaliste qui <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">restant</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">venant</add> </subst> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">à</del> <add place=\"across\">du</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">Pará</placeName>, a remonté <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio Negro</placeName> et <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">a</del> visité les rives si peu connues du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">Rio <lb />Uaupés</placeName>. (<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006221 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806009\">Alfred Wallace</persName>, <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/AF59ZDCI\">Travels on the <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">Amazon</placeName> and <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">Rio <lb />Negro</placeName> 1853</bibl> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 273.<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> Cette curieuse Expédition a été de <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">l’année</add> 1850. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Mr</abbr> <expan>Monsieur</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006221 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806009\">Wallace</persName> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">monta</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">est venu</add> </subst>, comme moi, par le forêt du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">Pimichín</placeName> à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">Javita</placeName> où il a eu le tort de composer un poème très ennuyeux!\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.6	p	Je désire ardemment que mes réminiscences de vieillard <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">puissent</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">puissent</add> </subst> Vous offrir quelque intérêt. Daignez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />agréer, Monsieur le <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004558 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117058777\">Chevalier</persName>, l’hommage de la haute <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />considération avec laquelle j’ai l’honneur d’être','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.1	p	très sensible, monsieur, à la confiance que vous avez bien voulu<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">e</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">montrer</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">témoigner</add> </subst> et que je dois sans doute à l’affectueuse bienveillance<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dont m’honore <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mr</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> le <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012685 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116316985\">chevalier d’araújo</persname>, j’ai étudié les documens <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui traitent de la convention que vous avez si heureusement conclue <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et qui sera sans doute adoptée dans des momens plus calmes. lors <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la paix de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008129 https://www.geonames.org/2988507\">paris</placename> j’avois déjà été invité par le <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006315 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806645\">duc de wellington</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de rédiger un mémoire sur les limites de la guiane portugaise qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a été publiée dans la „collection diplomatique de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015624 http://d-nb.info/gnd/100268935\">schöll</persname>“ après avoir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />joui de la haute approbation de votre cour. les incertitudes qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont régné si longtemps sur les limites des possessions brésiliennes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le bassin du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename>, ont pris naissance, en grandes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />parties de la préférence, qu’on a voulu donner à de vagues suppo<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />sitions sur le point où le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">est</add> traversé <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">par</add> l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002500\">équateur</placename> aux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />indications plus simples et plus <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">nécessaires</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">rassurantes</add> </subst> (là où manquait toute <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />observation de latitude) des confluents de deux fleuves<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> lorsque <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mr</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004243 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118778390\">de la condamine</persname> venoit au <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">grand pará</placename> on croyoit cette <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">ville</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />placée sous l’équateur <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">même</add>: il la trouvoit de 1° 28′ au sud de l’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />équateur. pendant un demi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>siècle on a été persuadé <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">q</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">dans</add> </subst> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />capitainerie générale de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007134 https://www.geonames.org/3646738\">caracas</placename> que l’habile ingénieur <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7493530\"><choice> <abbr>d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi></abbr> <expan>don</expan> </choice> <lb />gabriel clavero</persname> avoit construit le fortin de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">san carlos <lb />del río negro</placename> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">l’a</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">là</add> </subst> où passait l’équateur. aucune observa<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tion astronomique n’avoit été faite dans ce lieu avant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />moi. la „real expedición“ des limites de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">solano</persname> n’a pas depassé <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le confluent du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011098 https://www.geonames.org/3794011\">guaviare</placename> et de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">l’orénoque</placename>. j’ai trouvé le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fortin de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">san carlos</placename> par 1° 53′ 42″ de latitude boréale. j’approuve <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beaucoup, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>messieur</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">monsieur</corr> </choice><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> la sagesse avec laquelle dans votre négociation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">n’avez</add> (avec les intentions les plus conciliatrices) pas insisté sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des agrandissements de territoire et adopté, pour sortir <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">des siècles</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">des longues</add> </subst> incertitudes qui naissent des vagues expressions de l’ancien <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />traité du 11 octobre 1777, le principe de l’<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">uti</hi> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">possidentis</hi> de 1810. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous avez très bien senti que ce qu’il y a de plus important <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pour faire sortir ces sauvages contrées de leur état d’isolement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et d’abandon industriel, c’est d’appaiser les antipathies nationales <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et de profiter, par une libre navigation, de cet admirable <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entrelacement de rivières qui, comme un don bienfaisant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">p</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">p</add> </subst>rovidence, a été accordé, assez inutilement jusqu’ici <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aux peuples de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150\">amérique du sud</placename><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"intralinear\">.</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">, surtout à ceux qui sont <lb />placées <unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"low\">simultanément</unclear></del> </subst><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"words\" /></del><del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><unclear reason=\"covered\" cert=\"high\">et</unclear> brésil</del> c’est sur ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />point de vue que, de retour de l’expédition de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en 1800, <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">que</del> j’ai taché de fixer l’attention du gouvernement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />espagnol, dans <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c306e958-5894-45d1-86e9-585894f5d156\" corresp=\"#c9868adc-c0be-494c-868a-dcc0bef94c42\" type=\"editorialnote\">un rapport</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c9868adc-c0be-494c-868a-dcc0bef94c42\" corresp=\"#c306e958-5894-45d1-86e9-585894f5d156\" type=\"editorial\">humboldt vermerkt in seinem amerikanischen reisetagebuch, dass er am 3. august, 29. september und 24. november 1800 an den staatsminister <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002270 https://viaf.org/viaf/163178085/\">mariano luis de urquijo</persname> geschrieben habe (sbb-pk, handschriftenabteilung, nachl. alexander von humboldt, tagebücher der amerikanischen reise, iii, bl. 100v). diese drei briefe konnten bislang nicht aufgefunden werden.</note> que j’adressai au ministre des <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />affaires étrangères d’alors, le chevalier d’<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002270 https://viaf.org/viaf/163178085/\">urquijo</persname>, je disais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />alors: „lo que seria lo mas digno de ser obtenido por el <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />medio de mutuas concesiones seria una libertad entera y <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />reciproca de comercio en estas magistuosos rios, el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orinoco</placename>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename> y el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> ó <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010983 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">guainía</placename> y el <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008689 https://www.geonames.org/3694960\">marañón</placename>. nada <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />seria mas propio para fomentar la prosperidad in unos <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />payses tan atrasados en el cultivo de los tierras, nada mas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proprio para disminuir la infeliz y irracional antipatia <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">que</add> </subst> existe desgraciadamente entre las naciones limitancas.“\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.2	p	<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />monsieur le ministre résident et amendador <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">n</hi></abbr> <expan>don</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004558 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117058777\">miguel m. lisboa</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me fait l’honneur de m’adresser à la fin de sa lettre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(en date du 4 août 54) dont il a bien voulu m’honorer, deux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">demandes</add> </subst> spéciales, auxquelles je tacherai de répondre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avec franchise:\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.3	p	1° avant l’expédition de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015933 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1064898874\">solano</persname> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>c. a. d.</abbr> <expan>c’est-à-dire</expan> </choice> vers l’année 1750, la possession de fait des portugais sur le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> s’étendait-elle au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename> ?\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.4	p	il y a eu certainement (bien avant que les espagnols ont <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />établi des missions sur l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010507 https://www.geonames.org/3689453\">atapabo</placename>, le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename> et le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename>), depuis les établissemens portugais, formés chez les marabitaires, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de tems en tems, des incursions vers le nord, au<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename> par le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016324 https://www.geonames.org/3664591\">cababury</placename> et le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008011 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">pacimoni</placename>. vous trouverez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />même sur ma grande carte de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename> (<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>pl.</abbr> <expan>planche</expan> </choice> 16 de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mon <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/rkbbpg4a\">atlas géographique et physique</bibl> du voyage) inscrite <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />près d’un lac (par le 3° de latitude de nord) les mots suivants: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">au bord d’un</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">c’est sur les bords de ce</add> </subst> lac, à l’est du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008771 https://www.geonames.org/3632520\">río <lb />mavaca</placename> que les portugais s’introduisent par le <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">arastradero</hi>) qui va du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010215 https://www.geonames.org/3626853\">río siapa</placename>, affluent du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />au <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008771 https://www.geonames.org/3632520\">río mavaca</placename>, pour cueillir le fruit aromatique du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"laurus pucheri\">laurier puchery</name> et la <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" subtype=\"vernacular\" key=\"smilax\">salsepareille</name>, article d’exportation <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">pará</placename>. on parvenait aussi à l’est de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005679 https://www.geonames.org/3638075/la-esmeralda.html\">esmeralda</placename>, là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />où j’ai été et <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mr</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">schomburgk</persname>, 30 ans après moi, le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />plus près des sources de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename>. c’étoient de ce côté<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">des</add> incursions temporaires, ce n’était pas une <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">possession</hi> de fait.<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\" hand=\"#author\"><metamark />si des aventuriers <lb /><subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">portugais</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">indiens</add> </subst> mêlés à <lb />quelques colons portu<lb break=\"no\" />gais poussaient souvent <lb />leurs incursions hostiles <lb />jusqu’aux eaux du <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009307 https://www.geonames.org/3626342\">rio <lb />temi</placename> et du <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">tuamini</placename> <lb />(avant 1755) c’étoit <lb />pour faire des esclaves, <lb />„aller à la conquête des <lb />âmes“ et les vendre au <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> portugais. <lb />l’établissement de <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">javita</placename> <lb />sur le <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">tuamini</placename> <lb /><del rendition=\"#s\">établissement <subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">espagnol</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">chrétien</add> </subst></del> existoit <lb />sans doute mais comme <lb />village indien, sous la <lb />domination d’un chef <lb />indien du nom de <lb /><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016200\">javita</persname><supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> les premiers <lb />blancs que le père <lb /><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020820\">roman</persname>, en février 1744, <lb />rencontra en passant le <lb />premier l’<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename> <lb />au <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> fûrent <lb />des portugais, marchands <lb />d’esclaves „de la tropa <lb />de rescate“. les gupunaves <lb />leur vendaient les pri<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />sonniers qu’ils ne man<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />geaient pas. ce n’est pas <lb />dans le village indien <subst> <del rendition=\"#s\">que</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">où</add> </subst> <lb />dominait le chef <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016200\">javita</persname>, <lb />c’est dans un des établisse<lb break=\"no\" />mens portugais du <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio <lb />negro</placename> que le père <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020820\">roman</persname> <lb />attendit l’arrivée du <lb />jésuite portugais <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020894\">avoga<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />dri</persname> qui vint du <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">pará</placename> (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dr2naw3j\">voyage</bibl> <lb /><choice> <abbr>t.</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> ii, <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>pages</expan> </choice> 416 et <lb />537).</note> les portugais en 1750 n’ont <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <add place=\"superlinear\">eu je crois</add> <del rendition=\"#s\">eu</del> </subst> aucun établissement, aucune culture au nord du point où entre le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017133 https://www.geonames.org/3646290\">cassiquiare</placename>, au nordest du rocher <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016257 https://www.geonames.org/12097194\">culimacari</placename> sur lequel j’ai bivouaqué avec <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mr.</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003476 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118661604\">bonpland</persname> !\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.5	p	2° les limites du traité du 25 <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>nov.</abbr> <expan>novembre</expan> </choice> 1852 <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">sont elles d’accord</del> <add place=\"intralinear\"> <lb />sont<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>elles d’accord</add> </subst> avec ce que vous avez manifesté dans la relation de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>votre</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">vos</corr> </choice> voyages aux régions équinoxiales ? <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je n’ai <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">touché</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">visité</add> </subst> les eaux du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> pas à l’ouest du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />point où <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">cette rivière</add> reçoit les eaux du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">caño pimichin</placename>, étant venu à pié <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />travers <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>la</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">le</corr> </choice> forêt, de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">javita</placename> (mission du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009541 https://www.geonames.org/3625971\">rio tuamini</placename>) au terme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">portage</hi> sur le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">caño pimichin</placename>.j’ai <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"chars\" /></del> pu receuillir<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je crois<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> des renseignemens assez précis sur les lieux que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous nommez dans le traité. ma carte de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orénoque</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> offre le confluent de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002483 https://www.geonames.org/3689801\">apoporis</placename> (qui reçoit le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020658 https://www.geonames.org/3661880\">taraíra</placename>) avec le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">yupurá</placename>, confluent <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">per</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">uqui</add> </subst> est à 1° <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">au sud</hi> de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’équateur et par lequel vous commencez vos limites <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>art.</abbr> <expan>article</expan> </choice> 1<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">er</hi> dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le traité<note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"mbottom\" hand=\"#author\"><metamark />je n’ai trop compris pourquoi ce traité dans le mémoire de <lb /><choice> <abbr>mr</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020789 http://viaf.org/viaf/4040885\">lleras</persname> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 32 présente d’autres noms de lieux comme limites <lb />que le traité daté du 25 <choice> <abbr>nov.</abbr> <expan>novembre</expan> </choice> 1852 du <hi rendition=\"#u\">diario</hi> des debates <choice> <abbr>nº</abbr> <expan>numéro</expan> </choice> 23 <lb />qui commence non par le <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020658 https://www.geonames.org/3661880\">río taraíra</placename>, mais par les sources du <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020657 https://www.geonames.org/3794829\">memachí</placename> que <lb />j’ignore. il me reste aussi des doutes <del rendition=\"#s\">sur</del> (<choice> <abbr>mém.</abbr> <expan>mémoire</expan> </choice> de <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020789 http://viaf.org/viaf/4040885\">lleras</persname> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 32) sur la juste <lb />application des mots rive droite et gauche<supplied cert=\"high\">.</supplied> l’<placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002483 https://www.geonames.org/3689801\">apoporis</placename> et le <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">yupurá</placename> <lb />coulant du nordouest au sudest ou du nord au sud<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> les <lb />rives gauches sont septentrionales ou orientales. comment <lb />ce qui est au<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>delà de ces rives gauches ne seroit-<lb break=\"no\" />il pas de <subst> <add place=\"mbottom\"><metamark /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0001610\">nueva gran<supplied cert=\"high\">a</supplied>da</placename></add> <del rendition=\"#s\">venezuela</del> </subst> ? je me trompe peut<supplied cert=\"high\">-</supplied>être<supplied cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb />mais cette note ne change rien au texte <lb />de ma lettre.</note> daté du 25 juillet 1853: ma carte offre les <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">ríos</hi> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002502 https://www.geonames.org/3689773\">aquio</placename>, <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009466 https://www.geonames.org/3666924\">tomo</placename>,<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">uaupés</placename> et <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020660 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">xié</placename>. je placerais <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009903 https://www.geonames.org/3669578\">l’Île de san josé</placename> près de la <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010872 https://www.geonames.org/3644839\">caverne</placename> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">de <lb />coucuy</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">ou</add> </subst> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">harem</hi> (lieu de débauche) du célèbre chef indien <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013115\">cocuy</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009839 https://www.geonames.org/3628488\">san carlos del rio negro</placename> et <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009908 https://www.geonames.org/3663473\">san josé de maravitanos</placename> (là <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’on devait me faire prisonnier) par les 1° 40′ de latitude nord. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />c’est cette île qu’on regarde aujourd’hui comme frontière. je crois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avoir pu donner (<bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dr2naw3j\">voyage <choice> <abbr>éd.</abbr> <expan>édition</expan> </choice> in 4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">to</hi></bibl> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>t.</abbr> <expan>tome</expan> </choice> ii. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 459) des renseignements <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />très curieux sur les véritables sources <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">des</del> <add place=\"across\">du</add> </subst> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010983 https://www.geonames.org/3681651\">guainía</placename> et sur le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />cours supérieur du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">uaupés</placename> que j’ai dus à un moine très <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />judicieux de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>st</abbr> <expan>saint</expan> </choice> françois, le gardien fray <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002217\">francisco pugnet</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de la mission des andajuies<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> il était venu des sources du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">yupurá</placename> (<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017122 https://www.geonames.org/3663814\">caquetá</placename>) aux sources du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011098 https://www.geonames.org/3794011\">guaviare</placename> en partant de <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">la</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">la</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mission du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020655 https://www.geonames.org/3661591\">caguán</placename>. je n’ai rien trouvé, monsieur, dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />votre <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">convention</hi> que soit contraire aux notions géographiques <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que j’ai pu acquérir. récemment il a paru à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">londres</placename> le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voyage d’un naturaliste qui <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">restant</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">venant</add> </subst> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">à</del> <add place=\"across\">du</add> </subst> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005187 https://www.geonames.org/3405870\">pará</placename>, a remonté <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio negro</placename> et <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">a</del> visité les rives si peu connues du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020659 https://www.geonames.org/3661742\">rio <lb />uaupés</placename>. (<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006221 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806009\">alfred wallace</persname>, <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/af59zdci\">travels on the <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010499 https://www.geonames.org/3407729\">amazon</placename> and <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010589 https://www.geonames.org/3631536\">rio <lb />negro</placename> 1853</bibl> <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 273.<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> cette curieuse expédition a été de <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">l’année</add> 1850. <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>mr</abbr> <expan>monsieur</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006221 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118806009\">wallace</persname> <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">monta</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">est venu</add> </subst>, comme moi, par le forêt du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008289 https://www.geonames.org/3630150\">pimichín</placename> à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010721 https://www.geonames.org/3625188\">javita</placename> où il a eu le tort de composer un poème très ennuyeux!\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0020433:1.6	p	je désire ardemment que mes réminiscences de vieillard <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">puissent</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">puissent</add> </subst> vous offrir quelque intérêt. daignez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />agréer, monsieur le <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0004558 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117058777\">chevalier</persname>, l’hommage de la haute <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />considération avec laquelle j’ai l’honneur d’être'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.1	p	You will I am sure be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kindly glad to hear that the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Goverment</sic> <corr>Government</corr> </choice> have been pleased <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to recognize my <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Father</persName>’s & my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />services, & have at last granted <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me a position <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">of</del> <add place=\"across\">at</add> </subst> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">Kew</placeName>, appointing <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me Assistant Director of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">Royal Gardens</orgName> (to my <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Father</persName>), <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with a salary of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"400\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 400</measure> a year. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />This is I need hardly say a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />matter of great rejoicing to us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all, as it affords hopes to my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Father</persName> that I may eventually <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />succeed him, should my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />services be approved; & for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the present it ensures me <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" reason=\"covered\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">the</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />enjoyment <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">for the</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">(as also in</add> </subst> future<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">)</add> of an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />income that enables me to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />devote my whole time to<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />science. It is now many <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />years since my <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Father</persName> has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />been vainly endeavoring to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />procure any fixed position <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for me, in connection with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">Royal Gardens</placeName>, but except <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the shape of occasional <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />grants for special services I <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have never received any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />support<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> from the <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">Gardens</placeName>, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which I have been so long <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />engaged.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.2	p	And now I am going to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beg a great favor of you & hope <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that you will pardon me if <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my request is unreasonable, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& that is that you would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />send to my <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">wife</persName> a portrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of yourself to hang up in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />our Drawing room. We are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quite envious <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">&</del> <add place=\"across\">of</add> </subst> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">the one you have sent to</add> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015345 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11671350X\"><choice> <abbr>Col.</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> Sabine</persName>’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& if <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">I</del> <add place=\"across\">we</add> </subst> could have procured one<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />without troubling you we <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />should have done so. Perhaps <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />if you can spare one you will <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kindly write Mrs <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">Hooker</persName>’s name <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on it, that she may have a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />memorial of you herself.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.3	p	I have searched in vain for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />any more information about <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Sargassum</name></hi>; & for experiments <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />upon its vitality in a basin of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water. I shall however endeavor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to settle the point by having <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />some specimens brought home <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in a bucket of salt water, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sent to the salt-water Vivarium <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H1884631\">Regent’s Park Zoological <lb />Gardens</orgName>. I cannot see any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficulty in supposing that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"algae\">Alga</name> maintains an inde<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />pendent existence, floating as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />well as attached, as I know <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Fucus servatus</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Fucus nodosus\">nodosus</name></hi>,<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />& <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">Macrocystis pyrifera</name></hi> do.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.4	p	The <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>Goverment</sic> <corr>Government</corr> </choice> have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very liberal to <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">Kew</orgName> this year, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voting ample sums to the support <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">l</del> <add place=\"across\">L</add> </subst>ive plants, Museum, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">l</del> <add place=\"across\">L</add> </subst>ibrary & Herbarium; also <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1800\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 1800</measure> for building a new conser<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />vatory & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 3000</measure> for a new <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Museum; this, with my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />appointment, was quite unexpected, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />considering the extent of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8\" corresp=\"#aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649\" type=\"editorialNote\">War</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649\" corresp=\"#ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8\" type=\"editorial\">Hiermit ist der Krimkrieg von 1853 bis 1856 gemeint.</note> estimate especially.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.5	p	I shall have the pleasure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of sending to you next week <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the first volume of the <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58\" corresp=\"#cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a\" type=\"editorialNote\">„Flora <lb />Indica“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a\" corresp=\"#a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4\">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I.</note> in which you will find <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8\" corresp=\"#b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5\" type=\"editorialNote\">sketch of the Physical Geography <lb />of the whole area, & of each province</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5\" corresp=\"#dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4\">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I, S. 83–258: \"Sketch of the Physical Features and Vegetation of the Provinces of India\".</note>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">D.<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> Thomson</persName> & myself.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.6	p	Mrs <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">Hooker</persName> desires her most <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />respectful remembrances & regrets that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />she has never yet seen you – she & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3\" corresp=\"#f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17\" type=\"editorialNote\">children</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17\" corresp=\"#a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3\" type=\"editorial\">Der Sohn <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6906554\">William Henslow</persName> wurde 1853 und die Tochter <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9813752\">Harriet Anne</persName> wurde 1854 geboren.</note> are all well.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.1	p	you will i am sure be <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kindly glad to hear that the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>goverment</sic> <corr>government</corr> </choice> have been pleased <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to recognize my <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">father</persname>’s & my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />services, & have at last granted <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me a position <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">of</del> <add place=\"across\">at</add> </subst> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740\">kew</placename>, appointing <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me assistant director of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">royal gardens</orgname> (to my <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">father</persname>), <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />with a salary of <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"400\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 400</measure> a year. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this is i need hardly say a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />matter of great rejoicing to us <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />all, as it affords hopes to my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">father</persname> that i may eventually <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />succeed him, should my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />services be approved; & for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the present it ensures me <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\"><gap quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" reason=\"covered\" /></del> <add place=\"across\">the</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />enjoyment <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">for the</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">(as also in</add> </subst> future<add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">)</add> of an <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />income that enables me to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />devote my whole time to<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />science. it is now many <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />years since my <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">father</persname> has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />been vainly endeavoring to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />procure any fixed position <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />for me, in connection with <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">royal gardens</placename>, but except <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the shape of occasional <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />grants for special services i <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />have never received any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />support<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>.</orig> <reg /> </choice> from the <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">gardens</placename>, in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />which i have been so long <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />engaged.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.2	p	and now i am going to <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />beg a great favor of you & hope <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that you will pardon me if <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />my request is unreasonable, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& that is that you would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />send to my <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">wife</persname> a portrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of yourself to hang up in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />our drawing room. we are <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quite envious <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">&</del> <add place=\"across\">of</add> </subst> <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">the one you have sent to</add> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015345 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11671350x\"><choice> <abbr>col.</abbr> <expan>colonel</expan> </choice> sabine</persname>’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& if <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">i</del> <add place=\"across\">we</add> </subst> could have procured one<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />without troubling you we <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />should have done so. perhaps <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />if you can spare one you will <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />kindly write mrs <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">hooker</persname>’s name <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on it, that she may have a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />memorial of you herself.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.3	p	i have searched in vain for <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />any more information about <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">sargassum</name></hi>; & for experiments <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />upon its vitality in a basin of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />water. i shall however endeavor <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to settle the point by having <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />some specimens brought home <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in a bucket of salt water, & <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sent to the salt-water vivarium <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />in the <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h1884631\">regent’s park zoological <lb />gardens</orgname>. i cannot see any <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />difficulty in supposing that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />this <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"algae\">alga</name> maintains an inde<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />pendent existence, floating as <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />well as attached, as i know <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">fucus servatus</name></hi>, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\" key=\"fucus nodosus\">nodosus</name></hi>,<pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" />& <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\"><name type=\"plant\">macrocystis pyrifera</name></hi> do.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.4	p	the <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>goverment</sic> <corr>government</corr> </choice> have been <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />very liberal to <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">kew</orgname> this year, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voting ample sums to the support <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">l</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst>ive plants, museum, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">l</del> <add place=\"across\">l</add> </subst>ibrary & herbarium; also <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"1800\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 1800</measure> for building a new conser<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />vatory & <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3000\" unit=\"pfund_sterling\">£ 3000</measure> for a new <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />museum; this, with my <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />appointment, was quite unexpected, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />considering the extent of the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8\" corresp=\"#aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649\" type=\"editorialnote\">war</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"aa23dea7-c941-4636-a3de-a7c941a63649\" corresp=\"#ac8f4b5c-65ab-407b-8f4b-5c65ab607be8\" type=\"editorial\">hiermit ist der krimkrieg von 1853 bis 1856 gemeint.</note> estimate especially.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.5	p	i shall have the pleasure <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of sending to you next week <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the first volume of the <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58\" corresp=\"#cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a\" type=\"editorialnote\">„flora <lb />indica“</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"cb24ae95-3f27-47c2-a4ae-953f2787c22a\" corresp=\"#a7d5895a-c108-445b-9589-5ac108845b58\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/vnwtinb4\">hooker, j. d./thomson 1855</bibl>, i.</note> in which you will find <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />a <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8\" corresp=\"#b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5\" type=\"editorialnote\">sketch of the physical geography <lb />of the whole area, & of each province</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b135b4e3-3b53-4d57-b5b4-e33b534d57e5\" corresp=\"#dbe28b15-39ed-464d-a28b-1539edf64de8\" type=\"editorial\"><bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/vnwtinb4\">hooker, j. d./thomson 1855</bibl>, i, s. 83–258: \"sketch of the physical features and vegetation of the provinces of india\".</note>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />by <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">d.<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> thomson</persname> & myself.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0358884:1.6	p	mrs <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056\">hooker</persname> desires her most <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />respectful remembrances & regrets that <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />she has never yet seen you – she & the <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3\" corresp=\"#f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17\" type=\"editorialnote\">children</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"f0acbb96-aa33-4f4e-acbb-96aa331f4e17\" corresp=\"#a5c21dc3-07fd-447a-821d-c307fd247ac3\" type=\"editorial\">der sohn <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6906554\">william henslow</persname> wurde 1853 und die tochter <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9813752\">harriet anne</persname> wurde 1854 geboren.</note> are all well.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1.1	p	Votre <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H7863397\">lettre si instructive en <lb />date <add place=\"mTop\">du</add> 21 <choice> <abbr>Sept.</abbr> <expan>Septembre</expan> </choice></ref> est un trésor pour moi. Elle met dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />son véritable jour <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">l’ambiguité</hi> des questions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proposées et discutées si longtems sur ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que l’on veut appeler la <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">hauteur</hi> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">moyenne</hi> du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Thibet</placeName>, d’un prétendu plateau hérissé et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />couvert de montagnes. Il y a même ambiguïté <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur l’influence des localités, dans les limites <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />boréales et australes des neiges perptétuelles, sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />effets du courant ascendant <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">et</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">de</add> </subst> l’air chaud <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et le moindre humidité de l’air dans les très <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hautes régions. Votre voyage et celui de Votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />savant ami D<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName> font époque dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la connoissance de cette merveilleuse chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName>. La <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/DMAD82JH\">carte géologique</bibl> de Mr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013607 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116828978\">Greenough</persName> m’a <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">aussi</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">vivement</add> </subst> intéressé, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />j’aurai désiré plus de détails dans la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />partie du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009539\">Tsoungling</placeName>, le nœud de montagnes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’ouest et au nord<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>ouest de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010861 https://www.geonames.org/1178338\">Gilgit</placeName>, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">au</del> <add place=\"intralinear\"> <lb />comme</add> </subst> dans les deux chaînons du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou kho</placeName>, am<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre lesquels se trouve <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007429 https://www.geonames.org/1181064\">Chitrali</placeName>. C’est le point <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />géologiqu<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">es</del> <add place=\"across\">e</add> </subst> important où la chaîne du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">Kouen lun</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(E–O) se lie à la branche septentrionale de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou-kho</placeName> qui borne au nord le <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0988576 https://www.geonames.org/1131626\">Kafiristan</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et où l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> qui change singulièrement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de direction (d’<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#uu\">allure</hi>, Streichen) un peu à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’ouest du <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">Dhawalagiri</placeName>, se dirigeant (au <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lieu <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">de</supplied> E–O) du Sud<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>est au Nord<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>ouest<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />reunit, (au nord de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H5909268 http://www.geonames.org/1169607\">Mazuferabad</placeName>), au chaînon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />méridional de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">Hindou Kho</placeName>, à celui qui se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prolonge au nord de <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006835 https://www.geonames.org/1140026\">Herat</placeName> vers <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H9720755 http://www.geonames.org/124665\">Meschid</placeName>. C’est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à la sagacité de Votre courageux ami, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">Mr</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">D<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi></add> </subst> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName>, de juger péremptoirement (de favoriser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou d’anéantir) mes rêveries. Je ne veux pas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laisser partir Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555X\">Seemann</persName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dont le séjour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />malheureusement est bien court à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">Berlin</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sans Vous offrir, mon cher <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Hooker</persName>, ce petit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />signe de vie et de la tendre affection <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que je Vous ai vouée depuis sie longtems<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />J’ai eu grand plaisir de voir Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555X\">Seemann</persName>: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />il <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">n’</add>est <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><metamark />seulement <lb />très instruit, <lb />il est aussi</add> simple et aimable. Lorsque, comme moi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on appartient à l’ancienne génération <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />antédiluvienne, on se plaît doublement à connoître <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ceux de la nouvelle génération qui feront <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mieux que <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">nous</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">les vieillards</add> </subst>. Quand je réfléchis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />non seulement <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">à</add> ce que Vous et le D<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont entre <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <add place=\"superlinear\">les mains</add> </subst><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> à cet immense travail qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Voua force de fouiller les plus riches Collections <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Inde</placeName> et d’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456\">Australie</placeName> qui existent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le monde, je sais toute ce que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la Géographie des Plantes auroit à attendre de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous, mon cher ami, dans l’Introduction <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à laquelle Vous travaillez. Vos <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2KMISEKW\"><choice> <abbr>Himal.</abbr> <expan>Himalayan</expan> </choice> Journals</bibl> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />m’en donnent le présentement. Mais que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">questions <add place=\"superlinear\">plus</add> générales</hi> ne s’offrent <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">elles</del> pas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />dans Vos réunions de <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">Kew</orgName> entre Vous, le D<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555X\">Seemann</persName>, dont deux (et ce point <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">est</add> très important<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> été dans les régions polaires; discussions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur le nombre des espèces phanérogames qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />existent probablement dans les herbiers, <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">sur</add> leur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />distribution dans les zones, les plantes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />communes aux deux zones <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">tempérées</hi>, ancienne pha<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nérogame commune aux deux zones glaciales, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555X\">Seemann</persName> ayant été <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">au</unclear> <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000473\">Kotzebue Sund</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doit avoir connaissance de ces plantes si différentes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">tes</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">des</add> </subst> plantes alpines. Deux tiers de la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />surface du globe étant aquatique<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />distribution des <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\">Fucus</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\">Ulva</name>… m’intéresse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vivement, de même que les phanérogames <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />littorales sous différentes zones, les musci <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />frondosi d’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europe</placeName> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">retrouvées</hi> dans la zone <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />torride, non sur les <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000464\">Cordillères</placeName>, mais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans les plaines… Si tous les trois Vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pourriez gagner sur Vous<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>mêmes de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />noter toutes les semaines ce qui Vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />paroît de plus certain, ces <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"baefae25-b5cd-42a2-afae-25b5cd92a2e6\" corresp=\"#b9169776-e28a-4b68-9697-76e28a5b6876\" type=\"editorialNote\"><foreign xml:lang=\"Lat\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">discerpta</hi> <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">membra</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">poetae</hi></foreign></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b9169776-e28a-4b68-9697-76e28a5b6876\" corresp=\"#baefae25-b5cd-42a2-afae-25b5cd92a2e6\" type=\"editorial\">Lat.: Die zerpflückten Glieder des Dichters, nach Horaz, Satiren 1, 4, 62: <quote>disiecti membra poetae</quote>.</note> mériteront bien d’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />être offerts un jour au public comme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„Fragmens de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>Géogr.</abbr> <expan>Géographie</expan> </choice> des plantes“<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> Le peu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui a été donné là<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>dessus est <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">entaché</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de fausses identifications d’espèces. – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Les comparaisons spécifiques <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">vont</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">ont</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />été faites avec légèreté. On s’est plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />occupé de l’influence des climats, de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />météorologie végétale, de températures moyennes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que de la détermination des espèces sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lesquelles on fonde des résultats. Vous avez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig><add place=\"superlinear\">vos</add></orig> <reg>Vos</reg> </choice> mains ce qui peut avancer les sciences: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Il ne s’agit que d’enregistrer ce que Vous savez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tous les trois. Je plaide une cause que pendant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quelque tems <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\"><del rendition=\"#s\">la</del></unclear> j’ai cru la mienne<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">c</del> <add place=\"across\">C</add> </subst>e sont des matériaux qui se présentaient <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à Votre sagacité sans grands efforts <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à côté des travaux que Vous suivez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par un autre but. Offrez<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> je Vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prie<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mes respectueux hommages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à Votre noble <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">père</persName> et à notre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />maître <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><metamark />à nous <lb />tous, le digne</add> Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455\">Robert Brown</persName>. Agréez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mes affectueux souvenirs et l’expression <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />renouvellée de la haute estime que m’ont <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />inspiré <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>vos</orig> <reg>Vos</reg> </choice> travaux. L’absence de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003776 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118668005\">Bunsen</persName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />d’un pays dans lequel il a été <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">si</unclear> utile <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">ses</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">mes</add> </subst> compatriote<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">s</supplied> et <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">servi</unclear> de <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">lien</unclear> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre les sciences et la haute société <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aristocratique, est un bien triste évènement.<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c6f1b540-6a3b-4b65-b1b5-406a3b4b6542\" corresp=\"#eeaaeba3-b3fb-4c82-aaeb-a3b3fb4c82fd\" type=\"editorialNote\"><lb type=\"preserve\" /><foreign xml:lang=\"Lat\">Non semper sic erit</foreign>…</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"eeaaeba3-b3fb-4c82-aaeb-a3b3fb4c82fd\" corresp=\"#c6f1b540-6a3b-4b65-b1b5-406a3b4b6542\" type=\"editorial\">Lat.: Es wird nicht immer so sein.</note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1.2	p	Je travaille assidûment jour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et nuit. Il n<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">’</supplied>y a que <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">la nuit qui</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avance mon travail, car le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jour je n’appartiens peu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à moi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>même. Je prévois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que le <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e3606824-1fba-41d0-a068-241fba11d03e\" corresp=\"#a099032a-8378-43ea-9903-2a8378d3eab0\" type=\"editorialNote\">4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> et dernier <lb /><choice> <abbr>Vol.</abbr> <expan>Volume</expan> </choice> du <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/I87MJXIR\">Cosmos</bibl> paroîtra <lb />pendant le cours de <lb />l’hiver</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a099032a-8378-43ea-9903-2a8378d3eab0\" corresp=\"#e3606824-1fba-41d0-a068-241fba11d03e\" type=\"editorial\">Der vierte Band des Kosmos (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/I87MJXIR\">Humboldt 1845–1862</bibl>) erschien 1858. Erst mit der posthumen Veröffentlichung des – Fragment gebliebenen – fünften Bandes im Jahr 1862 fand das Werk seinen Abschluss.</note><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1.1	p	votre <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" target=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h7863397\">lettre si instructive en <lb />date <add place=\"mtop\">du</add> 21 <choice> <abbr>sept.</abbr> <expan>septembre</expan> </choice></ref> est un trésor pour moi. elle met dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />son véritable jour <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">l’ambiguité</hi> des questions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />proposées et discutées si longtems sur ce <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que l’on veut appeler la <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">hauteur</hi> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">moyenne</hi> du <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">thibet</placename>, d’un prétendu plateau hérissé et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />couvert de montagnes. il y a même ambiguïté <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur l’influence des localités, dans les limites <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />boréales et australes des neiges perptétuelles, sur les <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />effets du courant ascendant <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">et</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">de</add> </subst> l’air chaud <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et le moindre humidité de l’air dans les très <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />hautes régions. votre voyage et celui de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />savant ami d<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname> font époque dans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la connoissance de cette merveilleuse chaîne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename>. la <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/dmad82jh\">carte géologique</bibl> de mr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0013607 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116828978\">greenough</persname> m’a <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">aussi</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">vivement</add> </subst> intéressé, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />j’aurai désiré plus de détails dans la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />partie du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009539\">tsoungling</placename>, le nœud de montagnes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à l’ouest et au nord<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>ouest de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010861 https://www.geonames.org/1178338\">gilgit</placename>, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">au</del> <add place=\"intralinear\"> <lb />comme</add> </subst> dans les deux chaînons du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou kho</placename>, am<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre lesquels se trouve <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007429 https://www.geonames.org/1181064\">chitrali</placename>. c’est le point <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />géologiqu<subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">es</del> <add place=\"across\">e</add> </subst> important où la chaîne du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000502 https://www.geonames.org/1280792\">kouen lun</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />(e–o) se lie à la branche septentrionale de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" />l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou-kho</placename> qui borne au nord le <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0988576 https://www.geonames.org/1131626\">kafiristan</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et où l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> qui change singulièrement <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de direction (d’<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#uu\">allure</hi>, streichen) un peu à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’ouest du <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005520 https://www.geonames.org/1283457\">dhawalagiri</placename>, se dirigeant (au <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lieu <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">de</supplied> e–o) du sud<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>est au nord<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>ouest<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />reunit, (au nord de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h5909268 http://www.geonames.org/1169607\">mazuferabad</placename>), au chaînon <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />méridional de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006866 https://www.geonames.org/1139971\">hindou kho</placename>, à celui qui se <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prolonge au nord de <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006835 https://www.geonames.org/1140026\">herat</placename> vers <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h9720755 http://www.geonames.org/124665\">meschid</placename>. c’est <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à la sagacité de votre courageux ami, <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">mr</del> <lb /> <add place=\"intralinear\">d<hi rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi></add> </subst> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname>, de juger péremptoirement (de favoriser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou d’anéantir) mes rêveries. je ne veux pas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />laisser partir mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555x\">seemann</persname><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dont le séjour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />malheureusement est bien court à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159\">berlin</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sans vous offrir, mon cher <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">hooker</persname>, ce petit <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />signe de vie et de la tendre affection <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que je vous ai vouée depuis sie longtems<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />j’ai eu grand plaisir de voir mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555x\">seemann</persname>: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />il <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">n’</add>est <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><metamark />seulement <lb />très instruit, <lb />il est aussi</add> simple et aimable. lorsque, comme moi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />on appartient à l’ancienne génération <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />antédiluvienne, on se plaît doublement à connoître <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ceux de la nouvelle génération qui feront <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mieux que <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">nous</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">les vieillards</add> </subst>. quand je réfléchis <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />non seulement <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"intralinear\">à</add> ce que vous et le d<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont entre <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <add place=\"superlinear\">les mains</add> </subst><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> à cet immense travail qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />voua force de fouiller les plus riches collections <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">inde</placename> et d’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456\">australie</placename> qui existent <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans le monde, je sais toute ce que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />la géographie des plantes auroit à attendre de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous, mon cher ami, dans l’introduction <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à laquelle vous travaillez. vos <bibl xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/2kmisekw\"><choice> <abbr>himal.</abbr> <expan>himalayan</expan> </choice> journals</bibl> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />m’en donnent le présentement. mais que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">questions <add place=\"superlinear\">plus</add> générales</hi> ne s’offrent <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\">elles</del> pas <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2r\" />dans vos réunions de <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000559 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018641-4\">kew</orgname> entre vous, le d<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#sup\">r</hi> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555x\">seemann</persname>, dont deux (et ce point <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">est</add> très important<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">)</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> été dans les régions polaires; discussions <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sur le nombre des espèces phanérogames qui <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />existent probablement dans les herbiers, <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"across\">sur</add> leur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />distribution dans les zones, les plantes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />communes aux deux zones <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">tempérées</hi>, ancienne pha<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nérogame commune aux deux zones glaciales, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015775 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11744555x\">seemann</persname> ayant été <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">au</unclear> <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000473\">kotzebue sund</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />doit avoir connaissance de ces plantes si différentes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">tes</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">des</add> </subst> plantes alpines. deux tiers de la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />surface du globe étant aquatique<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> la <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />distribution des <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\">fucus</name>, <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\">ulva</name>… m’intéresse <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vivement, de même que les phanérogames <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />littorales sous différentes zones, les musci <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />frondosi d’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europe</placename> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">retrouvées</hi> dans la zone <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />torride, non sur les <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000464\">cordillères</placename>, mais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dans les plaines… si tous les trois vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pourriez gagner sur vous<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>mêmes de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />noter toutes les semaines ce qui vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />paroît de plus certain, ces <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"baefae25-b5cd-42a2-afae-25b5cd92a2e6\" corresp=\"#b9169776-e28a-4b68-9697-76e28a5b6876\" type=\"editorialnote\"><foreign xml:lang=\"lat\"><hi rendition=\"#u\">discerpta</hi> <lb /><hi rendition=\"#u\">membra</hi> <hi rendition=\"#u\">poetae</hi></foreign></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"b9169776-e28a-4b68-9697-76e28a5b6876\" corresp=\"#baefae25-b5cd-42a2-afae-25b5cd92a2e6\" type=\"editorial\">lat.: die zerpflückten glieder des dichters, nach horaz, satiren 1, 4, 62: <quote>disiecti membra poetae</quote>.</note> mériteront bien d’<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />être offerts un jour au public comme <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„fragmens de <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>géogr.</abbr> <expan>géographie</expan> </choice> des plantes“<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> le peu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />qui a été donné là<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>dessus est <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">entaché</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de fausses identifications d’espèces. – <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les comparaisons spécifiques <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">vont</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">ont</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />été faites avec légèreté. on s’est plus <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />occupé de l’influence des climats, de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />météorologie végétale, de températures moyennes, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que de la détermination des espèces sur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />lesquelles on fonde des résultats. vous avez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />en <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig><add place=\"superlinear\">vos</add></orig> <reg>vos</reg> </choice> mains ce qui peut avancer les sciences: <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />il ne s’agit que d’enregistrer ce que vous savez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tous les trois. je plaide une cause que pendant <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />quelque tems <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"high\"><del rendition=\"#s\">la</del></unclear> j’ai cru la mienne<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"2v\" /><subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#ow\">c</del> <add place=\"across\">c</add> </subst>e sont des matériaux qui se présentaient <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à votre sagacité sans grands efforts <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à côté des travaux que vous suivez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />par un autre but. offrez<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> je vous <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />prie<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> mes respectueux hommages <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à votre noble <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">père</persname> et à notre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />maître <add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"left\"><metamark />à nous <lb />tous, le digne</add> mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455\">robert brown</persname>. agréez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mes affectueux souvenirs et l’expression <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />renouvellée de la haute estime que m’ont <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />inspiré <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>vos</orig> <reg>vos</reg> </choice> travaux. l’absence de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003776 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118668005\">bunsen</persname> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />d’un pays dans lequel il a été <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">si</unclear> utile <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">ses</del> <add place=\"superlinear\">mes</add> </subst> compatriote<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">s</supplied> et <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">servi</unclear> de <del xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#s\"><gap reason=\"illegible\" quantity=\"1\" unit=\"words\" /></del> <unclear xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" reason=\"illegible\" cert=\"low\">lien</unclear> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />entre les sciences et la haute société <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aristocratique, est un bien triste évènement.<ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c6f1b540-6a3b-4b65-b1b5-406a3b4b6542\" corresp=\"#eeaaeba3-b3fb-4c82-aaeb-a3b3fb4c82fd\" type=\"editorialnote\"><lb type=\"preserve\" /><foreign xml:lang=\"lat\">non semper sic erit</foreign>…</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"eeaaeba3-b3fb-4c82-aaeb-a3b3fb4c82fd\" corresp=\"#c6f1b540-6a3b-4b65-b1b5-406a3b4b6542\" type=\"editorial\">lat.: es wird nicht immer so sein.</note>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0944929:1.2	p	je travaille assidûment jour <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et nuit. il n<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">’</supplied>y a que <supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">la nuit qui</supplied><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />avance mon travail, car le <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />jour je n’appartiens peu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />à moi<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>même. je prévois <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />que le <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e3606824-1fba-41d0-a068-241fba11d03e\" corresp=\"#a099032a-8378-43ea-9903-2a8378d3eab0\" type=\"editorialnote\">4<hi rendition=\"#sup\">me</hi> et dernier <lb /><choice> <abbr>vol.</abbr> <expan>volume</expan> </choice> du <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/i87mjxir\">cosmos</bibl> paroîtra <lb />pendant le cours de <lb />l’hiver</ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"a099032a-8378-43ea-9903-2a8378d3eab0\" corresp=\"#e3606824-1fba-41d0-a068-241fba11d03e\" type=\"editorial\">der vierte band des kosmos (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/i87mjxir\">humboldt 1845–1862</bibl>) erschien 1858. erst mit der posthumen veröffentlichung des – fragment gebliebenen – fünften bandes im jahr 1862 fand das werk seinen abschluss.</note><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.1	head	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#b\"><hi rendition=\"#fr\">Auszug aus einem Briefe</hi> Dr. <hi rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Hooker</persName>’s</hi> (Bota<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />nikers der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010385 https://www.geonames.org/6942239\">Südpol</placeName>ar-Expedition) an Alexander <lb />von <hi rendition=\"#g\">Humboldt</hi>.</hi></hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.2	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">Ein langer Zeitraum ist verstrichen, in welchem sich mir <lb />keine Gelegenheit bot, mich an Sie zu wenden, und ich würde <lb />es auch jetzt nicht wagen, Ihre Zeit in Anspruch zu neh<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />men, wenn ich es nicht für meine Pflicht hielt, Sie, der <lb />Sie mir ein so väterlicher Freund waren, mit meinem neuen <lb />Reiseunternehmen bekannt zu machen.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.3	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">Meine Absicht ist es nämlich, einige Theile des <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Hi<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />malaja</placeName> zu untersuchen, wozu mir von der <orgName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016794 https://d-nb.info/gnd/2052078-5\">ostindischen Com<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />pagnie</orgName> und dem General-Gouverneur, <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012119 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053586\">Lord <hi rendition=\"#g\">Dalhousie</hi></persName>, <lb />jede nur mögliche Unterstützung und Hülfleistung nicht nur <lb />zugesagt, sondern selbst angeboten worden ist.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.4	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">Da ich es nur zu wohl fühle, wie sehr Sie dieses Un<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ternehmen interessiren wird, beeile ich mich um so mehr, <lb />Ihnen meinen Plan mitzutheilen, dessen Ziel die entlegensten <lb />Theile <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">Tibet</placeName>’s sind. Das <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">indische</placeName> Gouvernement hat eben <lb />eine Ambassade von drei Offizieren ausgesandt, welche die <lb />Grenze zwischen dem Gebiete <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020838 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261357256\">Gholab Sing</persName>’s und der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009265\">chine<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />sischen Tartarei</placeName> feststellen soll. Mein Freund und Schul<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />genosse,</hi> Dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName></hi> (Sohn des Prof. der Chemie,</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003943 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351970\">Thomson</persName></hi>, zu <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020503 https://www.geonames.org/2648579\">Glasgow</placeName>), ist einer dieser Offiziere, der <lb />durch die Vermittlung meines <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">Vaters</persName> der Ambassade in der <lb />Eigenschaft als Arzt und Botaniker beigegeben wurde. Mitte <lb />des vergangenen <date when=\"1847-07\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">Juli</date> wollte die Expedition ihre Reise an<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />treten.</hi> Dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">Thomson</persName></hi>, ein eifriger und unterrichteter Bo<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />taniker, verlor leider während des <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361\">afghanischen</placeName> Krieges, wäh<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rend welchem er als Gefangener in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6593051 https://www.geonames.org/1141269\">Ghazni</placeName> zurückgehalten <lb /><cb n=\"116\" />wurde, nicht nur seine gesammten, reichen botanischen Samm<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lungen, sondern beinahe auch sein Leben. Der jüngste Brief, <lb />welchen ich von ihm erhielt, war von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017393 https://www.geonames.org/1256237\">Simlah</placeName> datirt, von <lb />wo die Expedition eben aufbrechen wollte, um den <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">Satledsch</placeName> <lb />durch <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6051051 https://www.geonames.org/1266519\">Kunawar</placeName> nach <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3372625\">Schipki</placeName> aufwärts zu steigen und dann <lb />nach <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020499 https://www.geonames.org/1281218\">Garu</placeName> zu gehen, wo sie mit den Commissären von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">China</placeName> <lb />zusammenzutreffen gedachten. Von hier aus wollten sie sich <lb />zum <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H3483948\">Khimaril-See</placeName> und dann nordöstlich bis zum 34° N. <lb />wenden, und während des Winters wieder nach <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">Ladakh</placeName> zurück<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />kehren. Mit Beginn des nächsten Frühjahres (<date when=\"1848\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">1848</date>) sollte <lb />der N.Westen das Ziel ihrer Expedition sein, wohin sie <lb />südlich von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010713 https://www.geonames.org/1281307\">Jarkand</placeName> und <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000377 https://www.geonames.org/1280849\">Kaschghar</placeName> bis zum 72° O. von <lb /><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010917 https://www.geonames.org/2647937\">Greenwich</placeName> (d. i. etwa dem Meridian von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002617 https://www.geonames.org/1184249\">Attok</placeName>) vorzudringen <lb />gedachten. Von da ist ihre Route noch unbestimmt, wie <lb />wahrscheinlich auch der schon festgesetzte Plan noch manche <lb />Abänderungen erfahren dürfte. An der Spitze der Expedition <lb />steht der so erfahrene und rühmlichst bekannte Reisende, <lb /><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016929 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116758112\">Capit. <hi rendition=\"#g\">Cunningham</hi></persName>; der dritte ist <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H4806588 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1097217914\">Lieut. <hi rendition=\"#g\">Strachey</hi></persName>, der <lb />den See <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">Manasa</placeName> untersuchte.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.5	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">Mein Plan geht nun dahin, mich dieser Expedition <lb />anzuschließen, im Fall ich die Expedition nicht mehr finden <lb />sollte, welche, wie man sagt, im Begriffe ist nach <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">Lhassa</placeName> <lb />aufzubrechen. Treffe ich aber weder diese, noch gelingt es <lb />mir jene aufzufinden, so wähle ich den <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaja</placeName> von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018110 https://www.geonames.org/1278974\">Al<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />morah</placeName> bis zum <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019116 https://www.geonames.org/1261269\">Niti-Paß</placeName>, an der Grenze der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009265\">chinesischen <lb />Tartarei</placeName>, zum Felde meiner Thätigkeit und denke nächsten <lb />Sommer schon in <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">Dardschiling</placeName>, an den Grenzen von <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">Bhotan</placeName>, <lb />zu botanisiren.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.6	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">Um mich mit der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">Ladakh</placeName>-Expedition zu verbinden, werde <lb />ich mich nach <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018097 https://www.geonames.org/1264728\">Ludiana</placeName> zu dem politischen Agenten begeben, <lb />der mich zu <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020838 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261357256\">Gholab Sing</persName> bringen und mir dann eine <lb />Escorte geben wird, in deren Begleitung ich die <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">Ladakh</placeName>-<lb />Expedition aufzusuchen gedenke. Die Interessen, welche ich <lb />bei meinem Unternehmen verfolge, sind rein wissenschaftlich; <lb />Botanik und Meteorologie sein Hauptzweck, welche beide ja <lb />auch meine Hauptarbeiten während der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010385 https://www.geonames.org/6942239\">Südpol</placeName>ar-Expedition <lb />bildeten.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.7	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">In der jüngst vergangenen Zeit war ich der <orgName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0721099 http://d-nb.info/gnd/511468-8\">Commission <lb />zur geologischen Aufnahme Großbritanniens</orgName> unter <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012188 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116099305\">Sir Henry <lb /><hi rendition=\"#g\">de la Beche</hi></persName> beigegeben, wo ich mich hauptsächlich mit der <lb />fossilen Botanik, vorzüglich aber mit der Structur der</hi> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"Lepidostrobus\">Le<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />pidostrobi</name> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">beschäftigt und gefunden habe, daß sie, analog den <lb /><name type=\"plant\" key=\"Lycopodium\">Lycopodien</name>, ebenfalls</hi> sporulae <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">besitzen, worüber ich noch vor <lb />meiner Abreise <ref xml:id=\"ff4804c0-2844-4c0b-8804-c028449c0bdd\" corresp=\"#cbd6a09d-78f9-4287-96a0-9d78f9628766\" type=\"editorialNote\">eine Arbeit veröffentlichen werde</ref><note xml:id=\"cbd6a09d-78f9-4287-96a0-9d78f9628766\" corresp=\"#ff4804c0-2844-4c0b-8804-c028449c0bdd\" type=\"editorial\">1848 veröffentlichte J.D. Hooker diesbezüglich zwei Aufsätze (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/IC5VSMNT\">Hooker, J. D. 1848a</bibl> und <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/RKKIIAS2\">Hooker, J. D. 1848b</bibl>).</note> <hi rendition=\"#g\">u.s.w.</hi></hi>','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.1	head	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#b\"><hi rendition=\"#fr\">auszug aus einem briefe</hi> dr. <hi rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">hooker</persname>’s</hi> (bota<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />nikers der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010385 https://www.geonames.org/6942239\">südpol</placename>ar-expedition) an alexander <lb />von <hi rendition=\"#g\">humboldt</hi>.</hi></hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.2	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">ein langer zeitraum ist verstrichen, in welchem sich mir <lb />keine gelegenheit bot, mich an sie zu wenden, und ich würde <lb />es auch jetzt nicht wagen, ihre zeit in anspruch zu neh<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />men, wenn ich es nicht für meine pflicht hielt, sie, der <lb />sie mir ein so väterlicher freund waren, mit meinem neuen <lb />reiseunternehmen bekannt zu machen.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.3	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">meine absicht ist es nämlich, einige theile des <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">hi<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />malaja</placename> zu untersuchen, wozu mir von der <orgname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016794 https://d-nb.info/gnd/2052078-5\">ostindischen com<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />pagnie</orgname> und dem general-gouverneur, <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012119 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053586\">lord <hi rendition=\"#g\">dalhousie</hi></persname>, <lb />jede nur mögliche unterstützung und hülfleistung nicht nur <lb />zugesagt, sondern selbst angeboten worden ist.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.4	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">da ich es nur zu wohl fühle, wie sehr sie dieses un<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />ternehmen interessiren wird, beeile ich mich um so mehr, <lb />ihnen meinen plan mitzutheilen, dessen ziel die entlegensten <lb />theile <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685\">tibet</placename>’s sind. das <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">indische</placename> gouvernement hat eben <lb />eine ambassade von drei offizieren ausgesandt, welche die <lb />grenze zwischen dem gebiete <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020838 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261357256\">gholab sing</persname>’s und der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009265\">chine<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />sischen tartarei</placename> feststellen soll. mein freund und schul<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />genosse,</hi> dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname></hi> (sohn des prof. der chemie,</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003943 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351970\">thomson</persname></hi>, zu <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020503 https://www.geonames.org/2648579\">glasgow</placename>), ist einer dieser offiziere, der <lb />durch die vermittlung meines <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">vaters</persname> der ambassade in der <lb />eigenschaft als arzt und botaniker beigegeben wurde. mitte <lb />des vergangenen <date when=\"1847-07\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">juli</date> wollte die expedition ihre reise an<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />treten.</hi> dr. <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\"><hi rendition=\"#g\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946\">thomson</persname></hi>, ein eifriger und unterrichteter bo<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />taniker, verlor leider während des <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361\">afghanischen</placename> krieges, wäh<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rend welchem er als gefangener in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6593051 https://www.geonames.org/1141269\">ghazni</placename> zurückgehalten <lb /><cb n=\"116\" />wurde, nicht nur seine gesammten, reichen botanischen samm<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />lungen, sondern beinahe auch sein leben. der jüngste brief, <lb />welchen ich von ihm erhielt, war von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017393 https://www.geonames.org/1256237\">simlah</placename> datirt, von <lb />wo die expedition eben aufbrechen wollte, um den <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018184 https://www.geonames.org/1115006\">satledsch</placename> <lb />durch <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6051051 https://www.geonames.org/1266519\">kunawar</placename> nach <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3372625\">schipki</placename> aufwärts zu steigen und dann <lb />nach <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020499 https://www.geonames.org/1281218\">garu</placename> zu gehen, wo sie mit den commissären von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991\">china</placename> <lb />zusammenzutreffen gedachten. von hier aus wollten sie sich <lb />zum <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h3483948\">khimaril-see</placename> und dann nordöstlich bis zum 34° n. <lb />wenden, und während des winters wieder nach <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">ladakh</placename> zurück<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />kehren. mit beginn des nächsten frühjahres (<date when=\"1848\" calendar=\"#gregorian\">1848</date>) sollte <lb />der n.westen das ziel ihrer expedition sein, wohin sie <lb />südlich von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010713 https://www.geonames.org/1281307\">jarkand</placename> und <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000377 https://www.geonames.org/1280849\">kaschghar</placename> bis zum 72° o. von <lb /><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010917 https://www.geonames.org/2647937\">greenwich</placename> (d. i. etwa dem meridian von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002617 https://www.geonames.org/1184249\">attok</placename>) vorzudringen <lb />gedachten. von da ist ihre route noch unbestimmt, wie <lb />wahrscheinlich auch der schon festgesetzte plan noch manche <lb />abänderungen erfahren dürfte. an der spitze der expedition <lb />steht der so erfahrene und rühmlichst bekannte reisende, <lb /><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0016929 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116758112\">capit. <hi rendition=\"#g\">cunningham</hi></persname>; der dritte ist <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h4806588 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1097217914\">lieut. <hi rendition=\"#g\">strachey</hi></persname>, der <lb />den see <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018705 https://www.geonames.org/1280615\">manasa</placename> untersuchte.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.5	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">mein plan geht nun dahin, mich dieser expedition <lb />anzuschließen, im fall ich die expedition nicht mehr finden <lb />sollte, welche, wie man sagt, im begriffe ist nach <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011427 http://www.geonames.org/1280737\">lhassa</placename> <lb />aufzubrechen. treffe ich aber weder diese, noch gelingt es <lb />mir jene aufzufinden, so wähle ich den <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaja</placename> von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018110 https://www.geonames.org/1278974\">al<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />morah</placename> bis zum <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019116 https://www.geonames.org/1261269\">niti-paß</placename>, an der grenze der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009265\">chinesischen <lb />tartarei</placename>, zum felde meiner thätigkeit und denke nächsten <lb />sommer schon in <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0017337 https://www.geonames.org/1273467\">dardschiling</placename>, an den grenzen von <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005234 https://www.geonames.org/1252634\">bhotan</placename>, <lb />zu botanisiren.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.6	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">um mich mit der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">ladakh</placename>-expedition zu verbinden, werde <lb />ich mich nach <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0018097 https://www.geonames.org/1264728\">ludiana</placename> zu dem politischen agenten begeben, <lb />der mich zu <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0020838 https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261357256\">gholab sing</persname> bringen und mir dann eine <lb />escorte geben wird, in deren begleitung ich die <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011319 https://www.geonames.org/12096464\">ladakh</placename>-<lb />expedition aufzusuchen gedenke. die interessen, welche ich <lb />bei meinem unternehmen verfolge, sind rein wissenschaftlich; <lb />botanik und meteorologie sein hauptzweck, welche beide ja <lb />auch meine hauptarbeiten während der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010385 https://www.geonames.org/6942239\">südpol</placename>ar-expedition <lb />bildeten.</hi>\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H0995590:1.7	p	<hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">in der jüngst vergangenen zeit war ich der <orgname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0721099 http://d-nb.info/gnd/511468-8\">commission <lb />zur geologischen aufnahme großbritanniens</orgname> unter <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012188 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116099305\">sir henry <lb /><hi rendition=\"#g\">de la beche</hi></persname> beigegeben, wo ich mich hauptsächlich mit der <lb />fossilen botanik, vorzüglich aber mit der structur der</hi> <name xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" type=\"plant\" key=\"lepidostrobus\">le<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />pidostrobi</name> <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">beschäftigt und gefunden habe, daß sie, analog den <lb /><name type=\"plant\" key=\"lycopodium\">lycopodien</name>, ebenfalls</hi> sporulae <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#fr\">besitzen, worüber ich noch vor <lb />meiner abreise <ref xml:id=\"ff4804c0-2844-4c0b-8804-c028449c0bdd\" corresp=\"#cbd6a09d-78f9-4287-96a0-9d78f9628766\" type=\"editorialnote\">eine arbeit veröffentlichen werde</ref><note xml:id=\"cbd6a09d-78f9-4287-96a0-9d78f9628766\" corresp=\"#ff4804c0-2844-4c0b-8804-c028449c0bdd\" type=\"editorial\">1848 veröffentlichte j.d. hooker diesbezüglich zwei aufsätze (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/ic5vsmnt\">hooker, j. d. 1848a</bibl> und <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/rkkiias2\">hooker, j. d. 1848b</bibl>).</note> <hi rendition=\"#g\">u.s.w.</hi></hi>'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:1.1	p	haben mir durch die so sorgfältig aufgenommene <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb7e8f3c-27d0-44c9-be8f-3c27d0f4c949\" corresp=\"#c77feb74-0333-4fa2-bfeb-7403335fa227\" type=\"editorialNote\">Karte Ihres <lb />Herrn <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Bruders</persName> von der Insel <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">Anageda</placeName></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c77feb74-0333-4fa2-bfeb-7403335fa227\" corresp=\"#fb7e8f3c-27d0-44c9-be8f-3c27d0f4c949\" type=\"editorial\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Robert Schomburgk</persName> hatte 1831 die Küste der zu den <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005359 https://www.geonames.org/3577718\">Virgin Islands</placeName> gehörenden Insel <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">Anegada</placeName> vermessen. Sein besonderes Interesse galt den Riffen und Untiefen, die zahlreichen Schiffen zum Verhängnis wurden. Seine Karte sowie eine Beschreibung der <placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">Insel</placeName> sandte <persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Schomburgk</persName> 1832 an die <orgName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000581 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1009629-2\">Royal Geographical Society</orgName>, die seine Arbeiten im selben Jahr veröffentlichte (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/LLKYBTFJ\">Schomburgk, R. H 1832a</bibl>, <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/GSHLGTMJ\">Schomburgk, R. H. 1832b</bibl>).</note> ein sehr angenehmes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Geschenk gemacht und ich bitte Sie<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> meinen besten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dank dafür zu empfangen. Es hat mich ungemein geschmerzt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dass meine Bemühungen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> dem <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Reisenden</persName> bei seinem projec<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tirten Unternehmen nach dem <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">Orinoco</placeName> von hier aus Geld<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />unterstüzung zu schaffen, nicht geglükt sind<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">.</supplied> Ich habe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Ihrem Herrn <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">Bruder</persName> darüber auf dem Wege durch <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">England</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />selbst geschrieben. Das Gouvernement hat hier, seit <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005875 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118529250\">Ehrenberg</persName>’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0014181 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116962437\">Meyen</persName>’s Reise, kein Unternehmen der Art begünstigt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und der Herr Staats<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>Minister <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>v</abbr> <expan>von</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012589 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11862783X\">Altenstein</persName>, der gern geogra<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />phische und naturhistorische Wissenschaften fördert, ist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />durch Mangel von fonds gehindert, meine Wünsche zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erfüllen.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1073334:1.1	p	haben mir durch die so sorgfältig aufgenommene <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"fb7e8f3c-27d0-44c9-be8f-3c27d0f4c949\" corresp=\"#c77feb74-0333-4fa2-bfeb-7403335fa227\" type=\"editorialnote\">karte ihres <lb />herrn <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">bruders</persname> von der insel <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">anageda</placename></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"c77feb74-0333-4fa2-bfeb-7403335fa227\" corresp=\"#fb7e8f3c-27d0-44c9-be8f-3c27d0f4c949\" type=\"editorial\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">robert schomburgk</persname> hatte 1831 die küste der zu den <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005359 https://www.geonames.org/3577718\">virgin islands</placename> gehörenden insel <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">anegada</placename> vermessen. sein besonderes interesse galt den riffen und untiefen, die zahlreichen schiffen zum verhängnis wurden. seine karte sowie eine beschreibung der <placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002456 https://www.geonames.org/3577778\">insel</placename> sandte <persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">schomburgk</persname> 1832 an die <orgname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000581 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1009629-2\">royal geographical society</orgname>, die seine arbeiten im selben jahr veröffentlichte (<bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/llkybtfj\">schomburgk, r. h 1832a</bibl>, <bibl corresp=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/gshlgtmj\">schomburgk, r. h. 1832b</bibl>).</note> ein sehr angenehmes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />geschenk gemacht und ich bitte sie<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> meinen besten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dank dafür zu empfangen. es hat mich ungemein geschmerzt<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dass meine bemühungen<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">,</supplied> dem <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">reisenden</persname> bei seinem projec<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />tirten unternehmen nach dem <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298\">orinoco</placename> von hier aus geld<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />unterstüzung zu schaffen, nicht geglükt sind<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\">.</supplied> ich habe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ihrem herrn <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015645 https://d-nb.info/gnd/118759086\">bruder</persname> darüber auf dem wege durch <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131\">england</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />selbst geschrieben. das gouvernement hat hier, seit <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005875 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118529250\">ehrenberg</persname>’s <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0014181 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116962437\">meyen</persname>’s reise, kein unternehmen der art begünstigt <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und der herr staats<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">-</supplied>minister <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>v</abbr> <expan>von</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0012589 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11862783x\">altenstein</persname>, der gern geogra<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />phische und naturhistorische wissenschaften fördert, ist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />durch mangel von fonds gehindert, meine wünsche zu <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />erfüllen.'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1.1	p	Je ne puis laisser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />partir les deux voyageurs de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>DD.</abbr> <expan>docteurs</expan> </choice> <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015552 H0015557 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118755234 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119074117\">Schlagintweit</persName> pour <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">Londres</placeName> sans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous donner un signe de vie et de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tendres amitié, sans solliciter en leur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />faveur, auprès de <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">Vous</persName> et de Votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />digne et respectable père, Sir <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X\">William</persName>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’appui de Vos <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">Conseils</hi> et de Votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bienveillance<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>. Qui</orig> <reg>, qui</reg> </choice> dans toute l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">Europe</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pourroit leur être plus utile, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>que</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">de</corr> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Vous<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dont les nobles et courageux travaux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont embrassé avec bonheur une si <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vaste variété d’objets de la Physique <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du Globe. Vous savez <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">k</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">combien</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />est affectueux le souvenir que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je Vous conserve. Vous me prouverez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Votre amitié en honorant de Votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />appui mes deux jeunes compatriotes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />munis de connoissances solides et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de grande expérience alpine. Qu’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me tarde de voir Votre beau <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„Voyage“. Mes trendres respects à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />toute Votre famille.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1.2	p	Comme à mon plus grand étonnement <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">sous les <lb />Tropiques</hi> à <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010783 https://www.geonames.org/3652462\">Quito</placeName> et <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008845 https://www.geonames.org/3530597\">México</placeName> je n’ai jamais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vu les hautes montagnes se colorer en rouge au lever <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et en coucher du soleil, je Vous demande en grace, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mon cher ami, de m’écrire si Vous savez par Vous même <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou par Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">Hodgson</persName> si dans l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">Inde</placeName> sous les <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2\">Tropiques</placeName> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aussi (<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603\">Ceylon</placeName>?) les hautes cimes se colorent en rouge<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Je ne <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">doit</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">doute</add> </subst> pas ce soit le cas de Vos montagnes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">Himalaya</placeName> placées <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">sur</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">hors</add> </subst> des <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2\">tropiques</placeName><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1.1	p	je ne puis laisser <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />partir les deux voyageurs de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />les <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <abbr>dd.</abbr> <expan>docteurs</expan> </choice> <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015552 h0015557 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118755234 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119074117\">schlagintweit</persname> pour <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">londres</placename> sans <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous donner un signe de vie et de <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />tendres amitié, sans solliciter en leur <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />faveur, auprès de <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891\">vous</persname> et de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />digne et respectable père, sir <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094x\">william</persname>, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />l’appui de vos <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">conseils</hi> et de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />bienveillance<choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <orig>. qui</orig> <reg>, qui</reg> </choice> dans toute l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148\">europe</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />pourroit leur être plus utile, <choice xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <sic>que</sic> <corr cert=\"high\">de</corr> </choice> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vous<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">,</supplied> dont les nobles et courageux travaux <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ont embrassé avec bonheur une si <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vaste variété d’objets de la physique <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />du globe. vous savez <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">k</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">combien</add> </subst> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />est affectueux le souvenir que <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je vous conserve. vous me prouverez <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />votre amitié en honorant de votre <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />appui mes deux jeunes compatriotes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />munis de connoissances solides et <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de grande expérience alpine. qu’il <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />me tarde de voir votre beau <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />„voyage“. mes trendres respects à <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />toute votre famille.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H1681569:1.2	p	comme à mon plus grand étonnement <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#u\">sous les <lb />tropiques</hi> à <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010783 https://www.geonames.org/3652462\">quito</placename> et <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0008845 https://www.geonames.org/3530597\">méxico</placename> je n’ai jamais <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vu les hautes montagnes se colorer en rouge au lever <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />et en coucher du soleil, je vous demande en grace, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mon cher ami, de m’écrire si vous savez par vous même <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ou par mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703\">hodgson</persname> si dans l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750\">inde</placename> sous les <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2\">tropiques</placename> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />aussi (<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603\">ceylon</placename>?) les hautes cimes se colorent en rouge<supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />je ne <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">doit</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">doute</add> </subst> pas ce soit le cas de vos montagnes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />de l’<placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558\">himalaya</placename> placées <subst xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\"> <del rendition=\"#s\">sur</del> <add place=\"intralinear\">hors</add> </subst> des <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0009532 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4060997-2\">tropiques</placename><supplied xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" cert=\"high\">.</supplied>'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.1	p	„ – Es ist eine süße Beruhigung nach vielen ausgestande<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nen Leiden, daß, was ich gethan, um zur geographischen Kennt<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />niß <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">Guianas</placeName></hi> beizutragen, von Ihnen anerkannt worden ist. Ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mag wohl gestehen, daß die Reise vom <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010554 https://www.geonames.org/3378740\">Essequibo</placeName></hi> nach dem <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019761 https://www.geonames.org/3384385\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">Co<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rentyne</hi></placeName> eine der schwersten und gefahrvollsten gewesen ist, die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich je ausgeführt habe. Mein Bruder <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">Richard</persName></hi> begleitete mich nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf dieser Reise, da seine Sammlungen ihn nöthigten, die Grenz-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />Expedition bereits im Mai 1843 zu verlassen, um direct nach der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Küste zurückzukehren; und es gewährte mir die Freude jenen schö<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nen Katarakt, dessen Brausen man bereits in der Ferne von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"mile\">3</measure> bis <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4\" unit=\"mile\">4 <lb />engl. Meilen</measure> hört, unserm geliebten <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e971289c-eb36-426f-b128-9ceb36e26f8a\" corresp=\"#dcbfd401-6662-4668-bfd4-016662a6689a\" type=\"editorialNote\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">Könige</persName></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dcbfd401-6662-4668-bfd4-016662a6689a\" corresp=\"#e971289c-eb36-426f-b128-9ceb36e26f8a\" type=\"editorial\">Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen.</note> zuzueignen. Ich sehne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich nun beinah nach Ruhe, um alles das, was ich gesehen und ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lernt, ruhig auszuarbeiten und dem Publicum vorzulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.2	p	Ich habe Ew. Excellenz in meinem vorigen Briefe (vom 28. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />[S. 73]) eine Tabelle von meteorologischen Beobachtungen am <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H2407729 https://www.geonames.org/3386016\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">Caphi<g ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />wuin</hi></placeName> beigesandt. In Antwort Ihrer Frage hinsichtlich des Standes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des Thermometers von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"122\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">122° F.</measure> [50° C.] bemerke ich, daß dieses in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der Sonne gewesen ist. Die größte Hitze, die ich je gesehen, fand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vergangenes Jahr statt, wo am 15. und 16. September, während wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019761 https://www.geonames.org/3384385\">Corentyne</placeName></hi> herabfuhren, das Thermometer (<persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000022 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118685783\">Fahrenheit</persName>’s), die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Glaskugel der Sonne ausgesetzt, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#g\">über</hi> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"140\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">140°</measure> [60° C.] stieg, wo ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich genöthigt fand, das Instrument aus der Sonne zu nehmen, da <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es nur bis auf 140° graduirt war. Während meiner vorigen Reisen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe ich es <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#g\">in der Sonne</hi> nie höher als <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"132\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">132° F.</measure> [55½° C.] gesehen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Unsere Residenz in <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010841 https://www.geonames.org/3378644/\">Georgetown</placeName></hi> ist in dem Theil der Stadt, wel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />chen man <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Kingston</hi> nennt. Unsere meteorologischen Instrumente <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sind auf der Gallerie <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12.5\" unit=\"foot\">12½ Fuß</measure> über dem Erdboden und so aufge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />hängt, daß weder directe noch zurückgeworfene Sonnenstrahlen sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />afficiren können. Die größte Hitze war im October 1843: <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"89.05\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">89.°5 F.</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />[31.°9 C.] zwischen 12 und 2 Uhr des Nachmittags.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.3	p	Die Situation der Stadt, so nahe an der Küste und der Ebbe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und Fluth ausgesetzt, verhindert, daß man Keller anlegen kann. Ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werde aber Ew. Excellenz mit nächstem Packet einige Data über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die Wärme der artesischen Brunnen zusenden (s. u.) und dann noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solche Durchschnittsstände des Barometers und Thermometers beifü<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gen, als Ihnen vielleicht wünschenswerth sein werden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.4	p	In Betreff Ihrer Frage wegen der Sternschnuppen bemerke <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich, daß ich jedes Jahr an den angemerkten Tagen Acht gegeben, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ob mehr Sternschnuppen als gewöhnlich fielen, ohne daß ich jedoch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einen Unterschied habe bemerken können. Ich glaube, es war am <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />11. oder 12. Januar d. J., als ich unter den Sternen α <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Eridani</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"75\" />und α <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">Argus</hi> eine nebelige, weiße Wolke bemerkte, die ganz dem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Dunstkreis eines Kometen glich. Ein heftiges rheumatisches Fieber, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />das mich 10 Tage in meinem Bette gehalten hat, verhinderte mich, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fernere Beobachtungen zu nehmen, und ich bin nur erst jetzt wieder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Reconvalescent.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.5	p	Mein Bruder <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><persName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">Richard</persName></hi> ist auf der Küste des <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placeName ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010554 https://www.geonames.org/3378740\">Essequibo</placeName></hi>, un<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typoHyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gefähr <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"40\" unit=\"mile\">40 Meilen</measure> von hier; ich erwarte ihn zu Anfang des nächsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Monats. – –“','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.1	p	„ – es ist eine süße beruhigung nach vielen ausgestande<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nen leiden, daß, was ich gethan, um zur geographischen kennt<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />niß <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011159 https://www.geonames.org/3378535\">guianas</placename></hi> beizutragen, von ihnen anerkannt worden ist. ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mag wohl gestehen, daß die reise vom <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010554 https://www.geonames.org/3378740\">essequibo</placename></hi> nach dem <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019761 https://www.geonames.org/3384385\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">co<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />rentyne</hi></placename> eine der schwersten und gefahrvollsten gewesen ist, die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich je ausgeführt habe. mein bruder <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">richard</persname></hi> begleitete mich nicht <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />auf dieser reise, da seine sammlungen ihn nöthigten, die grenz-<lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />expedition bereits im mai 1843 zu verlassen, um direct nach der <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />küste zurückzukehren; und es gewährte mir die freude jenen schö<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />nen katarakt, dessen brausen man bereits in der ferne von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"3\" unit=\"mile\">3</measure> bis <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"4\" unit=\"mile\">4 <lb />engl. meilen</measure> hört, unserm geliebten <ref xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"e971289c-eb36-426f-b128-9ceb36e26f8a\" corresp=\"#dcbfd401-6662-4668-bfd4-016662a6689a\" type=\"editorialnote\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0002178 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118535994\">könige</persname></ref><note xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" xml:id=\"dcbfd401-6662-4668-bfd4-016662a6689a\" corresp=\"#e971289c-eb36-426f-b128-9ceb36e26f8a\" type=\"editorial\">friedrich wilhelm iv. von preußen.</note> zuzueignen. ich sehne <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich nun beinah nach ruhe, um alles das, was ich gesehen und ge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />lernt, ruhig auszuarbeiten und dem publicum vorzulegen.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.2	p	ich habe ew. excellenz in meinem vorigen briefe (vom 28. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />[s. 73]) eine tabelle von meteorologischen beobachtungen am <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h2407729 https://www.geonames.org/3386016\"><hi rendition=\"#i\">caphi<g ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb break=\"no\" />wuin</hi></placename> beigesandt. in antwort ihrer frage hinsichtlich des standes <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />des thermometers von <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"122\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">122° f.</measure> [50° c.] bemerke ich, daß dieses in <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />der sonne gewesen ist. die größte hitze, die ich je gesehen, fand <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />vergangenes jahr statt, wo am 15. und 16. september, während wir <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />den <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0019761 https://www.geonames.org/3384385\">corentyne</placename></hi> herabfuhren, das thermometer (<persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000022 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118685783\">fahrenheit</persname>’s), die <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />glaskugel der sonne ausgesetzt, <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#g\">über</hi> <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"140\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">140°</measure> [60° c.] stieg, wo ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />mich genöthigt fand, das instrument aus der sonne zu nehmen, da <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />es nur bis auf 140° graduirt war. während meiner vorigen reisen <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />habe ich es <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#g\">in der sonne</hi> nie höher als <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"132\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">132° f.</measure> [55½° c.] gesehen. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />unsere residenz in <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010841 https://www.geonames.org/3378644/\">georgetown</placename></hi> ist in dem theil der stadt, wel<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />chen man <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">kingston</hi> nennt. unsere meteorologischen instrumente <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sind auf der gallerie <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"12.5\" unit=\"foot\">12½ fuß</measure> über dem erdboden und so aufge<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />hängt, daß weder directe noch zurückgeworfene sonnenstrahlen sie <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />afficiren können. die größte hitze war im october 1843: <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"89.05\" unit=\"fahrenheit\">89.°5 f.</measure> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />[31.°9 c.] zwischen 12 und 2 uhr des nachmittags.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.3	p	die situation der stadt, so nahe an der küste und der ebbe <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />und fluth ausgesetzt, verhindert, daß man keller anlegen kann. ich <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />werde aber ew. excellenz mit nächstem packet einige data über <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />die wärme der artesischen brunnen zusenden (s. u.) und dann noch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />solche durchschnittsstände des barometers und thermometers beifü<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gen, als ihnen vielleicht wünschenswerth sein werden.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.4	p	in betreff ihrer frage wegen der sternschnuppen bemerke <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ich, daß ich jedes jahr an den angemerkten tagen acht gegeben, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />ob mehr sternschnuppen als gewöhnlich fielen, ohne daß ich jedoch <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />einen unterschied habe bemerken können. ich glaube, es war am <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />11. oder 12. januar d. j., als ich unter den sternen α <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">eridani</hi> <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"75\" />und α <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\">argus</hi> eine nebelige, weiße wolke bemerkte, die ganz dem <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />dunstkreis eines kometen glich. ein heftiges rheumatisches fieber, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />das mich 10 tage in meinem bette gehalten hat, verhinderte mich, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />fernere beobachtungen zu nehmen, und ich bin nur erst jetzt wieder <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />reconvalescent.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H2009006:1.5	p	mein bruder <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><persname ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0015643 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118759078\">richard</persname></hi> ist auf der küste des <hi xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" rendition=\"#i\"><placename ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010554 https://www.geonames.org/3378740\">essequibo</placename></hi>, un<g xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"#typohyphen\" /><lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" break=\"no\" />gefähr <measure xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" quantity=\"40\" unit=\"mile\">40 meilen</measure> von hier; ich erwarte ihn zu anfang des nächsten <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />monats. – –“'),('urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.1	p	The bearer of this, Mr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976\">Polyblank</persName> of <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">London</placeName>, has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rendered Science a very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great service, by the series <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of unrivalled portraits of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Scientific men which he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />has executed in Photograph, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& supplied to the members <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000583 http://d-nb.info/gnd/39272-8\">Royal</orgName> & <orgName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H6654236 https://d-nb.info/gnd/38819-1\">Linnaean <lb />Societies</orgName> at the smallest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />possible cost.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.2	p	Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976\">Polyblank</persName> hopes for <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">the</add> privilege of obtaining a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />Sitting from you, & I need <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />not say that if you feel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />able to grant him this <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />honor, you will afford <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the highest gratification <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to hosts in this <placeName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">country</placeName>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />I can with confidence assert, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that there is no artist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from whom we would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rather have such a portrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than Mr <persName xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976\">Polyblank</persName>.','urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:	edition	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1	writingSession	\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.1	p	the bearer of this, mr <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" /><persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h8894976\">polyblank</persname> of <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743\">london</placename>, has <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rendered science a very <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />great service, by the series <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of unrivalled portraits of <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />scientific men which he <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />has executed in photograph, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />& supplied to the members <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />of the <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0000583 http://d-nb.info/gnd/39272-8\">royal</orgname> & <orgname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h6654236 https://d-nb.info/gnd/38819-1\">linnaean <lb />societies</orgname> at the smallest <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />possible cost.\nurn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.2	p	mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h8894976\">polyblank</persname> hopes for <pb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" n=\"1v\" /><add xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" place=\"superlinear\">the</add> privilege of obtaining a <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />sitting from you, & i need <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />not say that if you feel <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />able to grant him this <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />honor, you will afford <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />the highest gratification <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />to hosts in this <placename xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167\">country</placename>. <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />i can with confidence assert, <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />that there is no artist <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />from whom we would <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />rather have such a portrait <lb xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" />than mr <persname xmlns=\"http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0\" ref=\"https://edition-humboldt.de/h8894976\">polyblank</persname>.'),