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excellent opportunity of testing the pneumatogen cartridges, and tried to show him how to inhale, but it only made him sneeze, and after one or two half-hearted efforts, he said lugubriously, ' I suppose that will be enough, sir.'"A few days later Dr. Longstaff, with two Italian guides, Alexis and Henri Brocherel, and Kharbir, one of the 5th Gurkhas, successfully ascended Trisul.They started, however, from a much lower camp, namely at 17,450 feet, and therefore had to climb about 6000 feet.The time taken to reach the summit from the camp was ten hours.It certainly was a magnificent effort, yet none of the party seemed to trouble whether or not the ascent had established anything in the nature of a "record."Perhaps in this age when " records " stand for so much, this may appear strange, yet most certainly this modesty is preferable to the opposite extreme of trying to discredit the performances of other people in order to establish one's own.After this the party went north to the Raikana glacier and Kamet (25,447 feet), that lies on the Sutlej-Ganges watershed, but they were unable to accomplish more than a reconnaissance of the peaks.Dr. Longstaff then returned to the Trisul nullahs to map the country, whilst Major Bruce and Mr. Mumm went to Kashmir, where they ascended Haramukb, and then went westward to the Khagan range and climbed Shikara.To those who take an interest in the Himalaya and in mountaineering the book will be most welcome; it is splendidly illustrated, and the story is told by Mr. Mumm in a manner that carries one on from the beginning to the end.The two maps are not as complete as one could wish, for a good many places mentioned in the book have not yet been entered on the maps.The book is a very substantial addition to mountaineering literature, and the woik done by the expedition has added a great deal to our knowledge of the geography of the Nanda Devi group of the Kumaum Himala5a.J. N. C

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