chap, in.] LOST PAPERS. 53 



printed owing to press of matter at the end of a session, 

 and the MSS. of which cannot now be found. I the less 

 regret this, however, as so many works have been written 

 on these parts ; and I always intended to pass lightly 

 over my travels in the western and better known portions 

 of the Archipelago, in order to devote more space to the 

 remoter districts, about which hardly anything has been 

 written in the English language. 



