CHAPTER XI. 

 METEOROLOGY. AND CLIMATE. 



rnHE meteorological notes which I obtained are, 

 -*- I find, of but little service. This science is 

 a very exact one, and it was my experience, like 

 that of many others, to find that in the interval 

 between my departure and return, quite new in- 

 struments and observations w T ere found to be abso- 

 lutely essential. I ought to have slung my 

 thermometers to take the temperature, and I 

 ought also to have taken it at hours which I 

 found to be in ordinary circumstances quite out 

 of the question. Thus, it is, of course, far too 

 dangerous to carry thermometers on the march, 

 where they are liable to accidents of all kinds, 

 and the hour, 9 a.m., which seems to be usually 

 considered correct, is just in the middle of an 

 ordinary day's march or excursion. I do not 

 suppose that, except on Simda} T s, or during illness, 

 I was ever in my camp at that time during the 

 whole expedition. 



I also found that it was really too dangerous to 

 leave my thermometers out at night when I was 

 starting the next morning. The plunging about 

 of the boy in the early morning, in a dark tent, 



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