Identifier: strayfeathersjou41876hume (find matches)
Title: Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Calcutta : s.n.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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long known to my predecessors. Second,that having had but little previous experience in literary work,I have been called upon to get this paper ready in a very shortspace of time. If after this, the reader says, Then why pub-lish at all?; I can only reply, ,l All complaints to be levelledat the Editor of Stray Feathers/ at whose instance I preparedthis paper.* * Not expecting that Dr. Scully (who had never previously done any thing in thislino) would go at all deeply into the ornithology of the countries he visited, I hadintended to embody the results of any work of this nature which he might find timeto do in the general work which I have in hand on the Ornithology of Zashgharia andCentral Asia, based upon Stoliczkas, Hendersons and other collections. But itappeared to me when I saw how much attention he had bestowed on the subject, thatthis would not be fair to Dr. Scully and that he ought to publish the results of hi»observations in the first instance in his own name,—Ev., S. F.
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OF EASTERN TURKESTAN. 43 I. 1st September 1874.— Camp Ganles, 13,357 feet.—At lastfairly started on our journey to Yarkand. This morning all ourtents and luggage were loaded on Yaks and sent off to the camphere, which is only about six miles from Leh; we did not leaveuntil the afternoon, and as we rode through the town the usualsalute was fired and the troops presented arms, &c. Half theinhabitants of Leh must have turned out to see us make our exit,the women holding platters full of flour and butter towards us,and some of them burning incense in a kind of brazier. Allthe people kept repeating the words, Lam juk, which is, Ibelieve, the Tibetan for ban voyage; and the women made pro-found bows, clashing their thick earthenware bracelets togetherthe while, in a very curious fashion. Soon after leaving the cultivated land near Leh we entered anenormous sort of amphitheatre, the sides of which were formedby two huge, nearly semi-circular, moraines ; then ascending thisnarrow vall

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