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xl Elias and Bushell in Mongolia; Paderin at Karakorum; Prejevalsky in Tangut; all have been tracking his steps and throwing light, consciously or unconsciously, on his Herodotean chapters. And yet what a vast area that he has described from personal knowledge remains beyond and outside of the explorations and narratives of these meritorious travellers!

There remains but to add that the engagement to assist Mr. Morgan in the production of this work was made, some eighteen months ago, under circumstances which afforded leisure for the task. The promise has had to be kept under very different circumstances of place and occupation; and this must be the apology for some oversights, and perhaps some repetitions, in the Notes and Introduction.

H. YULE. London : February 23, 1876.