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millions of kuman beingu. Up here white A monasteries stand peacecully on their banks, while in Indie pagodas and mesquer are reflect ed in their waters; up here wolves, wild yaks, and wild sheep roam about their valleys, while down below. India the eyes of tigers the jungles that skirt their banks, and poisonous leopards shine like glowing scale of fro from snakes wriggle through the dense brashwood. Here in dreary Tibet loy storms and gold mow- falls lask their wares, while down in the fat entry mild-breezes whisper in the crowns of the palms and mango trees. I seemed to listen here to the beating of tho paises of those two renowned rivers, to watch the industry and' rivalry which, through autold generations, have occupied nanambered human lives, short and transitory as the life of the midge and the sarth gress; all those wanderers on the and guests in the abodes of time, whe have been born beside the fleeting current of these rivers, have drunk of their waters, have drawn from them life and strength for their Helds, have lived and died on their banks, and have risen from the sheltered freedom of their valleya up to the realms of sternal hope. Not without, pride, but still with a feeling of humble thankfulness, I stood there, conscious that I was the first white man who had ever penetrated to the sources of the Indus and Brabusapatra," volumes is Hedin's description of life at Shigutse

Not the least interesting portion of these two- and Tashi-lano, for here we get a wonderful insight into the lamaistic form of the religion of Buddha. His powers of observation are equalled by his faello presentation of dramatic pictures of the monks and nuns and of the pilgrims who

Trans Himalaya: Discoveries, and Adventures

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allow themselves to be immured in lonely cells in the mountains can believe that they are with Iodin, and that their opposition was simply an Kawilling reflex of the policy dictated accomplishing & meritorious act, how any human by the Liberal Administration in London which being not bereft of reason can imagine that life did so much to destroy the good effects of the was given him for this one purpose, Younghusband expedition carried out during

Without going into detail, it is difficult to Lord Curzon's Viceroyship. With mildly give a correct iden of the whole scope of Hediu's sardonic humont, Hedin mentions as one of the book, but we have indicated anfeiently where- Pourlous facts of this Gilbertian policy of dog-in its interest lies. It has been described as the In-the-manger that Lord Morley, Secretary of most fascinating book of travel publishod dar. State for India, presided over the meeting ing the year. We have not read Shackleton's in London at which Hedin delivered the first book, but judging from his magazine articles lecture setting forth his most recent achieve he must have improved in his style to out-rival ments in Tibet. In a way, all this opposition Hedin, whose chief fault is that he carries on may be considered, after all, as a blessing in his narrativo sometimes in the present and disguise. Though it caused initial delay and sometimes in the past tense with puzzling effect afterwards caused useless suffering and expense, upon the reader when be has not noticed the and waste of time to Hedin and his gallant transition Wo do not say that everyone will native companions, and loss of life in his and Trans-Himalaya" fascinating, but fow cerovanie, it probably helped to force the who are interested in Asistio races and travel explorer into traste he might not have visited will lay it down dissatisfied: Meniere Macmil otherwise, and unintentionally opened the door lan are to be congratulated on securing such a to geographical discoveries of the highest im-book for their Colonial Library. Each volume, metanga ta the centies varren inataja segrel illustrations, but the absence of hospitable plateau of Chang-tang and withhold Kelly & Walsh. admiration for the plack they displayed, mingled with compassion for the four-fected anima's whose lives were so ruthlessly sacrificed as the result of political machinations. It is almost incredible that the journey over the crest of the Karkerum was made during the winter months, Some idea of the bitter cold and nature of the tableland may be gathered from the isolated fast jotted down in the most matter of fast manner that the first camp was pitched at a height of 16,952 feet, or about 1,300 feet higher than Mont Blanc The highest pass crossed by: Hedin in 1907 was 19,070 feet, and in 1908, 19,095 feet. It may be mentioned in pasting that the highest peak in the Himalayas is Mount Everest (29,000 feet). If there was much suffering on this journey, there was as much of interest, and Hedin, with his great heart, has over an eye for the humorous. From the inimitable manner in which he tells his

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In all, Hedin crossed eight Traus-Himalayan passer (seven unknown before), and his achieve- ment is all the greater when it is borne in mind that history geocrds the crossing of seven only by the whole of the other travellers who have penetrated this geographical ares." He was able to correct the records of other travellers and to obtain a mass of new geographical and topo-and who like their fiction well spiced and excit- graphical data. He writes with the estatis joy taste, but we cannot conscientiously recommend ing, will find Mr. Holt White's story to their of the true explorer of his discovery of the it to mature readers. It might be taken as an sources of the mighty Indos and the Brahmaputra Lot us quote, and the quotatio will serve to indicate Hedin's style as a writer:- Here I stood and say the Indus emerge from the lap of the earth. Here I stood and saw this unpretentious brook wind down the valley, and I thought of all the changes it must nattergo before it passes between rocky cliffs, ainging its

This Journal is a collection of reports, each tion of the organisme, are illustrated by well osing ong in ever more powerful crescende, dealing with subjects in various branches drawn figures. To collect the work relating to the sea at Karachi, where steamers lond of science. Each article gives the latent into the chemistry of the morphine group of and unload their cargoes. I thought of its formation on what is treated. Thus, in No 14, alkaloids and to correlate it so as to see clear- restless course, through western Tibet, through first of all, the sewage disposal problem isly, the relation of the various alkaloids to one au- Ladak and Baltistan, past Skardn, where the apricot trees pod on its bank, through Daratan described in a comprehensive manner by F. N. and Kohistan, past Peshawar, and across the Kay Menzies, MD, plains of the western Punjab, until at difficulties met with from the earliest times in who recount the Inst it is swallowed

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other, is an undertaking from which any student of the subject might well shrink, unless desiring the information for some much needed object.. wate of the ocean, the nirvana and the this question a describes very clearly the This, however, has been done by HII E- Watt, refuge of all weary rivers. Here I nature of the bacterial treatment of sewage and D.Sc., who by the aid of an excellent series of stood and wondered whether the Macedonian the latest development of this, the best and manner in which the molecule of mor- 4ara ago, any netion source simplest system of sewage paritention for most

drawings shows as far as is known the years ago, had any notion where its source lay inland cities. Annie Porter, B.Sc,, reviews the phine is constatated and its relation to and revelled in the consciousness that, except the Tibetans themselves, no ather human being work done bills toon the Leucocytezou, or paras "Science Progress" contains nine articles, all codeine and thebaine, This number of but myself had penetrated to this spot. Great ites which invade the colourless blood corpuscles obstacles had been placed in my way, but Pro

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vidence had secured for me the triumph or lemoooytes. She points out that the first die DAVID CORSAR & SON'S reaching the actual sources of the Brahamatrs covered was in 1990 from the blood of an owl, and Tedus, and ascertaining the origin of these and that since then several kinds have been two historical rivers, which, like the claws of a differentiated The parasites ocour more.comgraphy, in which the history of the discovery system of the world the Himalayas Their

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