1 PREFACE. ' V
2 the trade of the kingdom, ^fr. Strachey had, beside!=i, the goodness
3 to allow me the use of his journal to correct my own, in drawing up
4 die narrative of our prt>ceedin^. The history of the three last
5 reigiiii ii» itkken from Mr. Alexander; but it by no means gives a just
6 idea of the interesting details which his work contains.
7 I find some difficulty in explaining my obligations to Mr. Irvine.
8 I have drawn from him most of the tacts reltUing to the rainy seasons
9 of Aighaunistauuy much of the slender aoeouiit I have given of the
10 animals, minerals, and vegetahlea ; a large portkni of mj infiinnatioii
11 OB the husbandry aad pradnoe^ and aome fiwta in the geography and
12 alatiades $ but I have left the gretler put of hia Tafaiable sqioit ofr-
13 toucfaed; and although I have ilw»ya had liieteqMotfivhttopmioiii
14 which iadnetdthe caie and aoctUMgr of his Mteuchei^ jet Ilunre^
15 m many caaoi, had ofipoituiutiesof uiveitigatu^ myadf the aulgeoti
16 to whkfa they idate^ and of tmtxdng, cm my own eudiodity* the
17 fiMts he has recorded. On the other hand, the constant coromunicft*
18 tkm I had with Mr. Irvine, till the final dissolution of the miiaiont
19 ga?e me opportunities of dertfing much information from him on
20 subjects unconnected with his own branch of the inquiry, and renders
21 it impossible for me to discriminatelihe ideas I owe to hint 6om those
22 which occurred to myself.
23 From the late Lieutenant Macartney T have taken the direction of
24 the mountains, the course of the streams, the relative position of the
25 townt;, and, in short, almost the whole of the information contained
26 in the map. I have also obtained from that officer*s memoir many
27 particulars wiiicli I have used in my descriptive and statistical accounts
28 of the country. The zeal and abiliiie:* of the Iftte Mr. ii^fljcartiaey arje ■ ;* -
29 well known to the government which he served; and his finnk and '
30 disinterested liberality in conmumicating hia ]nfonnatibni'wSBP''lDDg.- .
31 be lemetaibered by all who were mteieited in the geography^iaf-tfiflttr v'
32 oountries to whidh he had at ^ffbrent llmea directed his attention*
33 'I eould not lefoun fitom thia tribute to the merita of thia mmch re*.
34 gMtted officer ^ but it would Bl eoooid with tlie moden^ aid enreiw
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