74 TEAVEL, ADVENTUKE, AND SPORT. 



which is not our own, but which we carelessly use as 

 our urgent wants demand, had owed nothing to the 

 cultivating care of man. Fed by the snow-rills, and 

 by the dead lichens and strong grass which once 

 found life on the debris of gneiss and mica-slate, 

 undisturbed by the grubbing of wild animals, and as 

 undesirable in their tough green wood when young 

 as unavailable in their fuller growth for the use of 

 the puny race of mankind which grew up around 

 them, they were free, for countless centuries, to seek 

 air and light and moisture, and to attain the perfect 

 stature which they now present, but which is un- 

 likely to be continued now that they are exposed to 

 the axes of human beings who can turn them "to 

 use." If, as the Singalese assert, the cocoa-nut palm 

 withers away when beyond the reach of the human 

 voice, it is easy to conceive how the majestic deodar 

 must delight in being beyond our babblement Had 

 Camoens seen this cedar he might have said of it, 

 even more appropriately than he has done of the 

 cypress, that it may be a 



" Preacher to the wise, 



Lessening from earth her spiral honours rise, 

 Till, as a spear-point rear'd, the topmost spray, 

 Points to the Eden of eternal day." 



The view from Chini and Pangay of the Ral- 

 dung Kailas, one portion of the great Indian Kailas, 

 or Abode of the Gods, is very magnificent. At 



