The Karakorams and Cashmir. By Oscar Eckenstein. (T. Fisher Vnwin.)—This
account of the author's mountaineering experi- ences, part of which were with Sir W. M. Conway, is fashioned out of very slender materials. It is readable, especially those portions which describe the natives and give Herr Eckenstein's 'views on their aptitude for climbing and their business abilities. As rock-climbers he thought some of the men better than the Swiss, though their judgment was often at fault. Herr Ecken- stein's climbing was curtailed somewhat owing to waste of time and to Conway's wish that nothing important should be done without him. However, he managed to amuse himself and his neighbours by the time the Engliehnian and his party, who had separated some time before, returned. Shortly after this Ecken- stein left the expedition. There had been, he says, some friction, and the time had been obviously wasted.
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