Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1878-08-05)

ybg </u No 22. > </u At last > - SARAWAK, BORNEO.

                     August 5th 1878.

My dear Prof Ward:

    At last after much tribulation

the promised land is reached, and nat- urally enough my first letter is to the man who got me here. Once more, and for the </u third > time, I have reached the "height of my ambition." It would seem by this that my ambition has never soared very high ! Well. I have tried to keep it within the bounds of possibility, to let it soar no higher than I could climb by hard work, mainly of the </u muscular > kind. And yet I take notice that but for my good luck in falling in with you and casting my lot with Ward's Natural Science Estab- lishment I might at the present mo- ment be a long, long ways from Borneo after all, work or no work. A great many people attribute all their success to their own smartness and aled their failures to their "bad </u luck >". I believe I am more honest than that comes to, for I assert under all circum- stances that my success of late years is due as much to my </u good luck > as to my own efforts, Whatever happens hereafter </u I > shall always feel that the program of this expedition has been fully carried out, for we did enough </u more > in India to com- pensate for the loss of Australia, don't you think so? After Borneo I can go home with - out a single sigh, for it would be sheer ingratitude to sigh for anything more