Arthur Douglas Carey
Arthur Douglas Carey (c. 1844–1936) was a British civil servant in India, now remembered as a traveller in Central Asia, and in particular for exploration in what is now Xinjiang.
Early life
Carey was educated at the City of London School, and qualified for the Indian Civil Service in 1864. He went out to Bombay in 1865. He was a Collector of Salt Revenue in 1881, and the same year Acting Commissioner of Indian Customs.[1][2]
Expedition 1885–1887
On his self-financed Central Asian journey while on furlough from the Indian Civil Service, Carey started from
For some of the way Carey and Dalgleish were accompanied by H. E. M. James.[4] In Carey's words:
I struck a bargain for baggage-ponies with the Tartars of the frontier villages on the
Pangong Lake, and left Tanksé on the 12th of August with a caravan of thirty-one men and forty-nine ponies.[5]
They travelled east from Nubra, passing the landmark Lake Mungtsa (various spellings) and reaching Tashlik-kul on the edge of the Aksai Chin on day 17. They used a high pass, rising to over 17,500 feet (5,300 m). They headed north to Keriya Town and so to Hotan (Khotan).[6][7][8]
In terminology of the time attributed to
Carey and Dalgleish were the first Europeans to follow the Hotan River from Hotan downstream into the Tarim Basin, and the Yarkand River. At the confluence, they went along the Tarim River to the eastern Kashgar Plain.[11] They visited Karasahr, and went into winter quarters at Kurla to its south. He then turned south to the Lop Nur salt lake region.[1][2]
Crossing the
For his leadership of this expedition, Carey was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1889.[4]
Later life
Carey was Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium and Abkari, 1891. In 1891–2 he was in
Notes
- ^ a b c Rao, C. Hayavadana (ed.). . . Madras: Pillar & Co.
- ^ JSTOR 1785866.
- ISBN 978-1-134-32784-3.
- ^ a b "Carey, Arthur D (d 1936), AIM25 collection description". aim25.com.
- JSTOR 1801130.
- ^ Journey of Carey and Dalgleish in Chinese Turkistan and Northern Tibet and Orography from RGSSPv3. 1890. p. 18.
- ^ Sandberg, Graham (1904). The exploration of Tibet : its history and particulars from 1623 to 1904. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co.; London : W. Thacker & Co. p. 197.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8131-4904-2.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Journey of Carey and Dalgleish in Chinese Turkistan and Northern Tibet and Orography from RGSSPv3. 1890. p. 10.
- ISBN 978-1-83860-868-2.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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