labourers in that department of literature, I have sought to keep back my name rather than to thrust it obtrusively before the public in connection with productions which, however good or bad of their kind, had no individuality or importance sufficient to warrant their being connected with any particular author. That is the usual feeling of public writers in this country; but ; there is always some one insensible to it. A few months ago one of those candid friends who are the gentian and rhubarb of life, remarked to me: “What a stupid article that is on the CUTTLE-FISH which you have in - ! I wonder you put your name to it.” Now the cuttle-fish is a denizen of the ocean with which I am well acquainted, from its toughness as an article of diet, it having been the habit of my Hong-Kong butler to give me a curry of it whenever he was displeased with me, adding, when he saw my frown, the dubious consolation : "Eh! No likey ? I tinkee he makee you likey to-mollow (to-morrow) cully too muchee." But to write articles on the cuttle-fish was, I knew, out of my line; and I was shocked at having my name pointed out to me, printed in full, at the bottom of such an article. At first I cherished the hope that this was the work of some practical humourist; but found, on inquiry, that this alter ego, the cuttlefish A. W., was a sad reality; that he had published several articles of the same kind, and had as much title as myself to the name he bears. I know how vain it is to hope that any pushing young Scotchman will consent to preach behind a screen if he has any opportunity of doing so in front of it; therefore I address no remonstrance or request to the ichthyologist himself. But, would not some Scotch University-say Aberdeen or Glasgow-have the goodness to make a distinction between us by conferring upon him the degree of D.D., L.L.D., or whatever other high academical distinction his arduous researches into the character of the cuttle-fish may justify? LONDON, July 1875. ITINERARY. The character of the more important part of my journey will be rendered more intelligible by the following list of halting-places for the night, along with their heights : Place. Province. Height in feet. Date. Simla » 15, 16 » 18, 19 1873. British territory 7,084 June Keontal about 7,000 Theog about 7,000 Komarsen about 7,000 nearly 9,000 Kotgarh 6,700 7-11 Kunáwar or Bus- about 3,000 sahir about 3,000 Kunáwar 6,023 7,115 about 7,000 17 about 6,000 about 7,000 20 nearly 9,000 nearly 9,000 22 9,096 23-27 about 9,000 28 about 9,000 29 about 9,000 30 9,020 July 1 nearly 9,000 2,3 about 10,000 July 4 to Aug. 4 about 10,000 Aug. 5 about 10,500 6 about 13,000 7 Chinese Tibet 10,027 8,9 about 13,000 10 Kunawar about 13,000 11 Hangrang about 13,000 12 Rampúr 92 Hangrang. Chinese Tibet Spiti 17 Lahaul 6, 7 Zanskar Place. do. Nako. R. do. Kharjak Thesur Camp below Suley Mune Padam Seni Gonpa Phe First Camp on Pense P. Second do. Ringdom. Gúlmatongo Parkatse Súrú . Sankú Hamlet opposite Dras Dras Mataan Baltal Sonamarg Goond Kangan Ganderbahi Srinagar Avantipur . Bijbehara 1873. 11,975 Aug. 13, 14 10,215 15 about 11,000 16 about 11,600 about 12,000 18 12,774 19, 20 about 12,800 about 13,000 22 about 13,000 23 13,395 24 about 13,500 25 about 12,500 26 about 12,000 27 about 11,500 28 10,261 9,938 30 10,314 31 about 10,300 Sept. 1-3 about 10,600 10,844 5 about 12,000 about 15,000 8 about 15,500 9 13,670 10 about 13,000 11 about 12,000 12 about 12,500 13 11,873 14 about 12,000 15 about 12,500 about 13,000 18 about 13,000 19 about 12,500 20 about 12,000 21 about 12,000 22 10,624 23 about 10,000 24 about 10,500 25 10,144 about 10,500 27 about 9,500 28 about 8,700 29 about 7,700 30 about 7,000 Oct. 1 about 6,500 2 5,235 3-12 about 5,400 13 about 5,500 » 16, 17 Súrú 99 Dras |
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