[Illustration: HERBERT EDWARD PRETYMAN,
LIEUTENANT GRENADIER GUARDS.
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BASSANO. LONDON.]
JOURNAL
OF
HERBERT EDWARD
PRETYMAN
_LIEUTENANT GRENADIER GUARDS_
_Written during his Expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between
Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea_
1891
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PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY
_NOVEMBER,_ 1892
LONDON:
G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, HART STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
To
COLONEL H. TROTTER,
COLONEL L. J. OLIPHANT,
AND
OFFICERS OF THE 3RD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS.
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Few words are needed, and none by way of apology, for asking your
acceptance of the accompanying pages. They are all I can now offer in
grateful recognition of your affectionate regard for my very dear son,
and of your sympathy with myself in the loss I have sustained by his
untimely death. The last thought, I feel sure, that would have ever
crossed his mind was that this simple record of his excursion in
nearly untrodden ground would ever see the light in its present form.
I have made no attempt to alter or revise it, as those who knew him
best will most readily recognize. Great pains have been taken to
secure the most artistic copies available for the reproduction of his
photographs, which are the first ever taken in the Kittar Mountains.
To these I have ventured to add one, which will recall a scene
never to be forgotten by those who witnessed the last tribute of
your affection in attending my dear son’s funeral.
Would that I could find words worthier to express my heartfelt thanks
to you all, of all ranks, in your Battalion.
Most faithfully yours,
FREDERIC PRETYMAN.
GREAT CARLTON, LOUTH.
_September 1st,_ 1892.