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transmit from Paris the proceeds of his former collections, 
and the sum that had been granted in answer to the various 
applications made in his favour to government; equally 
vainly was he advised to confine himself, for the present, to 
short excursions in Asia Minor, which might have been very 
productive, without incurring much expense. He had made 
great progress in acquiring the Turkish and Persian lan- 
guages, the season was passing away, so he started again, 
accompanied by a Frenchman, M. Dufaud, who was to 
assist in making zoological collections, by a dragoman, 
named Nicholas, and a servant. M. Dufaud died at Teheran, 
the victim of fever, aggravated by the unskilful treatment of 
an English physician; Nicholas, who became dropsical at 
Ispahan, in consequence of the same fever, was unable to 
accompany him farther; and the servant, with a hand crip- 
pled by the accidental bursting of a gun, also left him. Thus 
exposed to most trying vicissitudes, Aucher-Eloy investi- 
gated, without yielding to discouragement, the north of Ana- 
tolia, the Pachalics of Sivas and Armenia, revisited Erze- 
roum, the base of Mount Ararat, Bayazid, and the banks 
of the Lake of Ouroumiah, Tabriz, Ghilan, and the adjacent 
shores of the Caspian Sea, investigating them very thoroughly. 
From Teheran he accomplished the ascent of the volcanic 
peak of Demawend, which he had vainly attempted to reach 
in 1835. Resuming the course he had followed on that occa- 
sion, he revisited Ispahan and the hospitable convent of 
the Catholic Armenians at Djulfa, near that city. From 
thence, accompanied by a single Armenian servant, named 
Alawerdi (Dieudonné), he directed his course to Shiraz and 
Boussa, on the brink of the Persian Gulf, thence to Firo- 
zebad, traversing the province of Laristan, and embarked at 
Bender Abassy, with the intention of exploring Muscat and 
the little known district of Oman in Arabia. In a small, 
ill-built and only half-decked boat, Aucher-Eloy encountered 
a furious tempest, and struggled for many hours, as it 
were, between life and death. . From Muscat he struck into 
the interior, and reached the territory of the Wahabites, : 
