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Society ; Mr. T. E. Donne ; Mr. E. Hardcastle ; 

 Mr. Leonard Tripp ; Mr. H. E. Hodgkinson ; Mr. 

 C. W. G. Morris ; Mr. Arthur Hawley, and Mr. H. B. 

 Tate, both for information and photographs with 

 which they have kindly supplied me. 



Last, but not least, I must thank Mr. J. G. Mil- 

 lais, who has given me the benefit of his valuable 

 criticism and advice. 



The later pages have been completed under the 

 sense of a heavy personal loss. He for whom they 

 were chiefly penned, and whose delight lay in reading 

 books of travel, after a life of unselfishness and de- 

 votion to duty has answered to the call of a Greater 

 than the Red Gods. In the shadow of the Great 

 Glen he lies, where he longed to be, facing toward 

 the purple hills he loved so well. The scent of the 

 pines mingles with the soft whisper of the birches 

 and the salt tang of the firth above his resting- 

 place, and over all there is a grateful peace. The 

 heather was never so purple nor the woods so green 

 as this year ; yet a shadow lay about them, for I 

 knew that I should never hear his cheery voice again. 

 What would have pleased him may perhaps prove of 

 interest to others ; it is in that hope that I have 

 finished this book. 



H. FRANK WALLACE. 



BEARNOCK, GLEN URQUHART, 

 October 1908. 



