"Yes," said he, going boldly up to this gentleman, "I am one of the
rangers, and it is my duty to ask you what you are doing here upon the
King's preserves."

"Quite so, my man," was the rejoinder. "We have been to see the statues
at the head of the pass, and have a permit from the Mayor of Sunch'ston
to enter upon the preserves. We lost ourselves in the thick fog, both
going and coming back."

My father inwardly blessed the fog. He did not catch the name of the
town, but presently found that it was commonly pronounced as I have
written it.

"Be pleased to show it me," said my father in his politest manner. On
this a document was handed to him.

I will here explain that I shall translate the names of men and places,
as well as the substance of the document; and I shall translate all names
in future. Indeed I have just done so in the case of Sunch'ston. As an
example, let me explain that the true Erewhonian names for Hanky and
Panky, to whom the reader will be immediately introduced, are Sukoh and
Sukop--names too cacophonous to be read with pleasure by the English
public. I must ask the reader to believe that in all cases I am doing my
best to give the spirit of the original name.

I would also express my regret that my father did not either uniformly
keep to the true Erewhonian names, as in the cases of Senoj Nosnibor,
Ydgrun, Thims, &c.--names which occur constantly in Erewhon--or else
invariably invent a name, as he did whenever he considered the true name
impossible. My poor mother's name, for example, was really Nna Haras,