246 JOUENEY TO THE KYMOBE HILLS 



all I can do now is to attempt to collect those relating to the 

 larger or more common animals.' 

 However, 



As in other parts of the world, so here, almost all the 

 animals of the plains will descend ; this is a common observa- 

 tion, but it never struck me before coming to India, that in 

 this respect height is not analogous to Latitude ; for most of 

 the animals and man himself accommodate themselves rather 

 to an increase of temperature than a diminution. Thus the 

 Englishman, horse, dog, sheep, &c. &c., all thrive in India ; 

 but the monkey, man, Bhil, and all the other common 

 tropical animals, are incapable of supporting colder climate, 

 dependent on latitude. 



I will give you but one botanical fact, and that is re- 

 garding the vegetation of heights. You have often asked 

 if Mts., especially isolated ones, in the tropical and S. 

 lat., had closely allied representations of Asiatic or N. 

 temperate forms ; now I have been up but one eminence, 

 and that of no more than some 5000 feet, and there I found 

 a Barberry in abundance, and one not unlike our English 

 and (I may say) one smaller Cape Horn species ; but one 

 more fact of a different value — do you remember the allusion 

 to Vallisneria in your grandfather's ' Bot. Gard.' ? I have 

 found what I take to be a second or new species of the genus 

 in the waters of the Soane, with the same wonderful habits : 

 without books, however, and a limited memory, I rather 

 talk at random about new species. 



With regard to my health, it is exactly the same : I am 

 still troubled at times with those bothering pains on the left 

 side and palpitations, aching in the axilla and occasionally 

 down the arm. The motions of the heart are on these 

 occasions very irregular, but I have no ringing in the ears, 

 shortness of breath, or any sym.ptoms that alarmed me. 

 Hot or cold days make no difference, and indeed I had a 

 long cessation of all pains for three weeks after my arrival, 

 that I thought the hot weather had cured me. Whatever 

 it is I am Twne the worse of being here, otherwise I never had 

 better health, am thinking of getting fat, and hardly know 

 what a headache is. Please do not show this part of my 

 letter, as this refers to a subject of which my friends know 

 nothing. 



