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Excerpt from Travel Sport in Turkestan: With Route-Map and 100 Illustrations From Original Photographs

I AM told by persons who are supposed to be literary that it is usual to write a preface, even when a book may be said to speak for itself and as I know that in England what is usual has to be done or attempted, I pen these few mislead ing lines. I say misleading, since they are written after the book is printed, not before it is written, as apparently they should be to justify the heading.

I am also informed that it is correct to attribute an enterprise of this kind to the urgent solicitation of a wide circle of friends; but I cannot bring myself to utter such a palpable untruth. I wrote the Diary to please myself, and I have sent it to the printer with the same laudable object.

Of course I hope it may find favour in the eyes of some; though it may not please the million, I humbly trust it will not make the judicious grieve.

That the shelves of libraries groan under the books about India I am well aware, and I have accordingly excluded all remarks which are the common property of tourists, and offer this volume merely as a personal narrative.

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