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they will tend, in some degree, though that be slight perhaps, to 
exhibit the veterinary proficiency and ardour of Mr. Moorcroft. 
More conspicuously will they represent him as author, traveller, 
and scientific inquirer, characters in which our late eminent pro- 
fessional brother shone with light no less creditable to himself than 
to those who elected him for the equally honourable, arduous, and 
perilous undertaking. As a traveller, Moorcroft was not to be 
surpassed “ in determination, hardihood, endurance, and spirit of 
enterprise.” As a veterinarian, “ his scientific attainments were 
strictly professional thereby shewing that he both followed and 
loved his profession. As a writer, some letters of his which we 
published on a former occasion, taken in connexion with the work 
before us, will at least demonstrate that he held his pen after the 
manner of a scholar and a gentleman. 
“ Our cattle had started on the 3d of February, swimming across 
the river at Rani-Nath, a village on the right bank of the Ala- 
kanda, opposite the gate of the palace at Srinagai, in order that 
they might proceed by a safer though more circuitous route. In 
the more difficult portions of their journey, porters had been pro- 
vided to relieve them of their loads ; but the grooms, confiding in 
the experience which they imagined they had acquired, refused to 
avail themselves of this aid, and consequently a valuable mule 
perished ; his load came in contact with a projecting rock, and he 
was forced over the edge of the precipice on the other side of him, 
and killed by the fall. This was the fourth animal I had lost. The 
horses were killed by accidents, with difficulty avoidable ; but the 
mules perished chiefly through the carelessness of their attendants. 
If horses are employed in such journeys they should not exceed 
fourteen hands, and those bred in the hills should be preferred. 
The mule, however, is a much safer animal ; but for the Himalaya, 
the beast that excels all in caution and security is the jabu, or 
mule from the Yak of Tartary and the cow” 
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“ The vicinity of Tiri is infested with tigers, and a kind of trap 
is used to catch them. This is a small chamber of loose, heavy 
stones, with a sliding door at one end and a loop-hole at the other. 
The door is kept raised by a slight moveable projection, and from 
the upper part of it a rope passes over the roof of the hut, which, 
entering it by the loop-hole at the other extremity, is tied to the 
neck of a goat, who is slightly fastened within. The tiger, at- 
tracted by his prey, enters the hovel, and attempts to carry off the 
goat. In the struggle that ensues, the door, shaken by the rope in 
