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When my old pupil and friend, Mr. Kitching, in whose attempts at recording languages heretofore unknown I had both a personal and a professional interest, undertook to write this book I promised him that I would contribute the Preface. But it would be idle to pretend that the modern fashion for those who stay at home to commend by a preface the experiences of pioneers abroad is of any more value than were the laudatory verses in Greek and Latin by personal friends which ushered in learned works two centuries ago. In truth, Mr. Kitching sbook needs no such commendation. In a plain and simple style he has recorded what his eyes have seen and his ears have heard among peoples within the British Empire indeed, but some of them as yet little known even to travellers. And herein, if I may venture an opinion, lies the chief value of his work. No great advance is made without being attended by some drawback, and it appears to be a real danger of the recent rapid progress of the science of Anthropology that men in Mr.
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