Eric Shipton, Britain's final representative in Kashgar and an accomplished mountaineer, failed several times from the southern route via Muk and Mingyol, finally gaining access from the north via Artux and Karakum.

A climbing fish was known to the Greeks; but though mentioned by Oppian, in about twenty different parts of his Halieuticks, and most curious qualities attributed to it, we do not correctly know this fish, the preke: he has eight long legs or fibres, four on each side of his head, which serve him to crawl, cling to the rocks, and entangle his prey.

Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.

The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.