PREFACE. 



I feel that the reader will expect some allusion to 

 the circumstances which have delayed, till 1871, the 

 publication of a journal ready to appear in 1860. The 

 following letter will explain the recovery of a long report, 

 forwarded by me in 1857, under an address, very legibly 

 written in ink, upon its cover, to the late Dr Norton 

 Shaw, then Secretary Royal Geographical Society of 

 Great Britain. 



' No. 9, of 1865. 



' General Department, 

 Bombay Castle, 28tk February, 1865. 



'To 



The Under Secretary of State for India, 



London. 



< Sir, 



"With, reference to the packet ad- 

 dressed, as per margin, which was 

 No. 9, A. sent to you via Southampton from 



The Secretary the Separate Department, by the 

 R Geog. Society, Overland Mail of the 14th instant, 

 Whitehall Place, I have the honour to subjoin for 

 London. your information copy of a note on 



the subject from the Hon. W. E. 

 Frere, dated the 5th idem. 



