DEDICATION. To CAPTAIN JOSEPH ALEXANDER WELLER Of the Corps of BENGAL ENGINEERS. The companion of both my journies to Nainee Tal, the first glimpse of which, I am sure, can never be effaced from our memories. We are both determined travellers in the Himmala, and yet, with the exception of our Nainee Tal trips, not one of our other concerted journies have ever been undertaken. Let us hope, however, that fortune may some time hence be more favourable to our plans. I would have given a great deal to have been the companion of your trip of 1842, into Tartary, as described in No. 50 N. S. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which I have read with great interest. It is rather a coincidence, that I should have been the first European the Lama of Toling ever saw, and you the last he can, in all human probability, ever see. On the 20th of October 1842, I introduced the gentleman to European society, in the valley of the Vishnoo Gunga, at the town of Mana; and on the 2nd of June 1842, you gave him a last glimpse of it, in his own country, at the distance of only a few miles from his own home, which the discomfiture of the Sikh invaders then allowed him to revisit. After all the kindness shewn him while a refugee in our territories, I ob |