Hyne C. Through Arctic Lapland

London: A. and Ch. Black. 1898 — 345 p.It seems customary in a book of travel to make frequent allusions to other voyagers who have journeyed over the same ground, or at least the
same district, and to make constant references to them, and give copious quotations from their works. Of course we ought to have gone to the British Museum before starting on our travel, and there read up all books which in the least bore upon the country which we were going to visit. We omitted to do this, firstly, because we preferred to observe things for ourselves, from our own individual standpoint, unprejudiced by the way in which other people had observed them; and, secondly, from the far more potent reason that we made our actual start in a great hurry, and had little enough time for any preparations whatever.