28 ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIFE [oh. ii. 
drinking by the way, and a towel. To my dress or 
clothing I have added a great-coat and a pair of 
old gloves. Of money I had just ten pounds 
sterling when I left Aberdeen, nine pounds in small 
bank notes put into a small pocket in the inner side 
of my flannel under-vest, one in silver secured in a 
purse of chamois leather kept in a pocket of my 
trousers.” 
The first night after leaving Aberdeen he spent 
at Charleton of Aboyne after walking a distance of 
30^ miles. 
“ It is now after nine,” he"writes in his journal, 
“and I have eaten a poor supper and taken a glass 
of whisky and some water.” 
Then follows a detailed narrative of the day’s 
journey, with a long list of the plants which he had 
found by the way, and he continues next morning 
as follows:— 
“Last night I bedded at eleven. I had a 
severe headache and a violent fit of shivering, 
followed by great heat without sweating. I did 
not rest very well, and so lay in bed till eight.” 
After breakfast he resumed his journey by 
Braemar, the Ben Macdhui mountain range and 
Strathspey. In his adoption of that route—the 
most arduous he could have chosen—he was no 
doubt influenced by that irresistible fascination 
which the Scottish mountains appear always to 
have had for him. One night on his way he spent 
at the base of Ben Macdhui, with an experience 
similar to that of his midnight journey in search of 
