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Do you crave, in hours of darkness, 



More than human sympathy ? 

 Lift your eyes ! the stars are shining ! 



Where they are Love, too, must be. 



I am indebted to Mrs. H. P. Hawkins, of Reigate, for 

 these very beautiful verses. Whether it be that Mrs. 

 Hawkins is treating of the science she loves so well, or 

 writing a hymn, or a letter to her friends, her pen is 

 always steeped in charm and eloquence. 



A FAMOUS AFRICAN JOURNEY 



In sending me Major R. A. Marriott's brochure, 

 The Change in Climate, Admiral Sir Algernon de 

 Horsey reawakened my interest in the Draysonian 

 theory of the cause of the Ice Age, for the book is 

 itself a defence of the theory. It so happened that in 

 writing to thank the veteran Admiral for his gift, I 

 remembered having read in Speke's Source of the Nile 

 Journal that the Admiral was in command of the ship 

 which took the African traveller and his companion, 

 Grant, to Zanzibar, and I referred to the circumstance 

 in my letter. In reply, he said : 



When I was captain of H.M. corvette Brisk, on 

 the Cape of Good Hope and East African Station, I 

 shipped at the Cape Captains Speke and Grant, with 

 them 12 mules, 10 Hottentots, and other impedi- 

 menta, and conveyed them down the East Coast of 

 Africa to Zanzibar, at which place I landed them, 

 men, animals, baggage, and all, to prosecute their 

 adventurous (and afterwards successful) journey of 

 discovery across the then unknown parts of Africa. 

 On reference to my diary I am reminded that Capt. 



