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0013 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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PREFACE.

AT the close of the journey which this book

describes, I was asked to deliver a lecture

before the Royal Geographical Society. Being

only twenty-four years of age I was not un-

naturally in some trepidation at the thought of

addressing the greybeards of so scientific a

body. But one of them —a hearty old Admiral

—gave me a piece of advice which quickly

relieved my mind. He said : " Leave out the

Geography ! " All the small details important

to a Geographer might be published in the

official " Proceedings " ; at an evening lecture

graphic incidents and personal adventures would

be much more appreciated.

In my previous book, ` The Heart of a