MEARES, C. H.

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Mr. J. W. Brooke's Journeys in Western Sze-Chuan. An offprint of this report on the ill-fated 1908 expedition of the young explorer John Weston Brooke FRGS into the interior of Sichuan and Tibet, during which he was killed by members of the Yi ethnic group.The author, Cecil Meares, was Brooke's travelling companion. Thinking the Yi friendly, decided to venture into their territory almost alone, with only an interpreter and a few servants, leaving Meares at Ningyuanfu. "As time passed and we got no news from him, we began to get anxious" (p. 618).

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