FOOTNOTES:
[ [B] Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S. 1876.
[ [C] Tibetan name: Jomo-kang-kar.
[ [D] Cp. Travels in Ladâk Tartary and Kashmir, Lieut.-Colonel Torrens, 1862, pp. 350-360, Appendix.
[E] Alpine Journal, vol. xx. p. 311.
[ [F] All the heights given, other than those taken from the Ordnance Survey, are deduced from observations made with a novel and portable form of mercurial barometer, which can be coiled up and carried in a small tin box in the pocket. As we were unable to make comparative readings with a second instrument at a known height, the barometrical readings are, in every case, calculated from the pressure at sea-level being assumed to be 30 inches. This makes the heights, as a rule, about 800 feet lower than if 31 inches were taken as the normal sea-level pressure.
[ [G] Cp. [page 304.]
[ [H] See illustration facing [page 90.]
[ [I] In Drew's Jummoo and Kashmir Territories, p. 370, also Alpine Club Journal, vol. xvii. p. 38, there is a sketch showing a mountain supposed to be K2. Drew also has drawn K2 in No. 3 Isometric view of the mountains on the north-east of the Indus river. When Drew made these sketches the existence of the Mustagh tower, which rivals K2 in height, was unknown; moreover both from Turmik, and also from near Gilgit where the Isometric view No. 3 was taken, the Mustagh tower would be almost exactly in front of K2.
[ [J] There is a drawing of this peak on page 119 of Sir W. M. Conway's Climbing in the Himalaya.
[ [L] Vol. iv. p. 185.
[ [M] It used to be in the Loan Collection at the South Kensington Museum.
[ [N] The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, vol. ii. p. 99.
[ [O] During climbing in ice and snow one is allowed, in fact, one is expected, to cut steps. But it is held to be entirely contrary to the laws which govern the great sport of mountaineering to make similar holes in rock. This is remarkable, though nevertheless true.
[ [P] 'They are still within the line of vulgarity, and are democratical enemies of truth,'—Browne's Vulg. Errours.
[ [Q] Absolutely perpendicular.
[ [R] The Playground of Europe.—Leslie Stephen.
[ [S] The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita.
[ [T] The First Gate. By the Chanon of Bridlington.
[ [U] Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis palatium.
[ [V] The New Atlantis. F. Bacon.
[ [W] Ibid.
[ [X] The great Lexicographer defines the word as 'an inhabitant of the mountains, a savage, a freebooter, a rustick.' Can the word be here used in this sense?
[ [Y] Of the mutilated we have spoken elsewhere. 'A man is mutilated when some part is taken away, and this not any part indifferently, but which, when wholly taken away, cannot again be generated. Hence, men that are bald are not mutilated.'—Metaphysics, Book v. chap. xxvii.
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