74 JRericHS — D. W. FrcshfieJd — Round Kanchenjunga. ■ 



Recent Ice-Transport. 

 The following extract from a sixpenny Danish Tourist's Guide 

 to Kjoge and Stevn's Klint seems worth reproducing: — [Near 

 Vemmetofte] " in the shore-wood there lies some distance from 

 the water a vast block, called Musestenen, as large as a labourer's 

 hut; in the severe winter of 1895 this was carried bj'^ the ice 

 several hundred alen {a1, about two feet) away from the water, 

 inland." 



I. — Round Kanchenjunga, a Narrative of Mountain Travel 

 AND Exploration. By Douglas W. Freshfield ; with an 

 Appendix on the Geology, etc., by Professor Garwood, F.G.S. 

 pp. xvi and 367; 42 illustrations and 3 maps. (London: Edwin 

 Arnold, publisher to H.M. India Office, 1903. Price 19s. nett.) 



ri^HE somewhat restricted territory of Sikhim, lying as it does 

 _L between the native Himalayan States of Nepal and Bhotan, is 

 yet extensive enough to enable the European traveller to penetrate 

 into the heart of the mountainous region of the eastern Himalayas, 

 which is dominated by the stupendous mass of Kanchenjunga. The 

 most ordinary globe-trotter nowadays can take his trip to Darjiling 

 and there enjoy the world-famed view of the monarch of the Sikhim 

 mountains. Nay, more, from a point in the neighbourhood easily 

 accessible he maj', under favourable circumstances, obtain a telescopic 

 view of the still mysterious Everest group, which the jealousy of 

 the Khatmandu Government is reserving, perhaps, for the mountain- 

 climbers of the middle of the twentieth century. 



Returning, however, to the subject of Kanchenjunga, it is one 

 thing to admire a mountain, and another thing to go round it, as did 

 Messrs. Freshfield, Garwood, and the Sellas, during the early Autumn 

 of 1899. Mr. Freshfield is a mountaineer and traveller of great 

 experience, and he states emj^hatically his conviction that nowhere 

 else on the earth's surface can there be found, within so small 

 a radius, a combination of tropical luxuriance, sylvan beauty, and 

 mountain sublimity equal to that which meets the traveller's eyes 

 among the valleys and highlands of Sikhim and Eastern Nepal. 

 It is small wonder, therefore, that such a country should have 

 attracted a certain amount of notice from previous writers. Of 

 these he principally mentions two, viz. Sir J. D. Hooker and 

 Major Waddell, both of whom have contributed largely, with pen 

 and pencil, to the description of this wonderful region. There is 

 probably no one interested in ' earth-science ' who has not at some 

 time of his life read with delight " Hooker's Himalayan Journals," 

 written in the middle of the nineteenth century. With good reason 

 has the author of the present work thought fit to dedicate it to 

 "The pioneer of mountain travel in the eastern Himalayas," whose 

 graphic pages and characteristic illustrations are by no means 

 superseded even at the present da}', whilst in the comparative 



