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8 THE EXPLORATION OF THE CAUCASUS
qualify our countrymen to use the many opportunities for physical
observation their energy gives them. The majority of English
climbers are, I admit, not physical observers. I am fully conscious
of my friends', and even of my own, deficiencies in this respect.
But whatever our shortcomings, we mountaineers have not darkened
counsel with vain words, after the manner of the '
I must define a '
Scientist '
Scientist.'
as a person who bears to a Man of
Science the relation that a poetaster does to a poet.
my frequent misfortune to come across specimens
It has been
of this class.
Geography, lying as it were on the Borderland of Science, is
one of their favourite hunting-grounds. One of these gentlemen