St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-08-23

fected was the heart, Of which the beat
ing became quite audible. This state
ment, to which we have before drawn
excited considerable surprise
at the ROYAL Geographical Society when
he read his paper there; bat there can
be no doubt as to its accuracy, and pos
sibly there is one fact hitherto unnoticed
which may serve partly to explain it.
1t may be remembered that Mr.. Wnym-
per, when first on Climborazo. suffered
greatly from the rarified air; but that IN
short time he grew quite accustomed
to it, and felt no moro trouble MI
Graham and his companions had to
cross extremely arduous passes, Win
coils as high as eighteen thousand feet to-
get to their mountains. They were,
therefore, thoroughly trained, and, to a
certain extent, Injured to the effect OF
thin air. At the same time 1t IS now
obvious that the universal effect OF Ghin
air on the human frame has been much
exaggerated; that, at attitudes where Is
has been hitherto thought that any one
must feel most faint and weak, young
and really strong men can 90 haro
work; and that indisputahle fact has
very roughly shaken hypothesis--We:
had almost said theory-on this SUBJECT,
After this attempt on Dunaglr1, Mr!
Graham assembled peak 22,5l5 teet
high, and got to the foot OF Mama DeVls
but was prevented from trying it by the
misconduct of his coolies, who deserted
him, and by the hideous difficulty OF
the gorge at its base. He left Kumaon
and later on, in the autumn OF the year
revisited Sikkim. where, after ascend
ing Gubonu, 1880 feet high. he and
his companions accomplished what lss
BY considerable degree, the most re-
markable mountain on record, as they
reached the summit of KabEU, which,
according to the trigonometrica1 survey
Of India, is 81, 1O5 feet above the leVe4
of the sea. Marvellous, however, as
their achievement was, the ascent OF the
mountain is not to our mind, so re-
markable as the view to which 1t gave
them of the unknown region. On the
lower summit, %, 700 feet high, and
only 800 feet, therefore, below Mount
Everest, they were able to see, over its
northern shoulder mountain tops which
its huge spurs had previously hidden
from all others. At this point Mr.. Ora;
ham pointed out Everest to Emil Boss
as the highest mountain in the world,
THAT cannot be, !" said Boss, "those are
her"-pointing to two peaks which
lowered far above the second and more
distant range, and showed over the
northern slope of Everest. Looking
carefully, the two agreed. OF course,
all three may have been wrong, but it
is extremely impossible that such prao-
ticed observers were wrong, and more
over, as the peaks were farther off than
Mount Everest, if they seemed higher.
than that mountain, they must in real
ity be considerably higher. Emil Boss
has assured the present writer that he
has no doubt whatever on the subject,
and that he should be glad to conduct
an Indian survey to the point from
which he could observe the range, feel
ing certain as to the result Of ObserTa-
ton. There can then be no real ground
for hesitation in accepting Mr.. Ora
ham statement, and very striking are
the results Of his expedition in the Rima-
laYas. He and his companions got into
the very heart of the chain, and made,
| under circumstances of considerable
difficulty. some daring and most re-
markable expeditions, and, having APP
preached the threshold of the unknown
region, they saw the great peaks of the
| highest range on the surface OF the
earth, concerning which we know at
present considerably less than we do OF
the mountains in the moon. Saturday
| Reaseao.