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teresting discoveries were the result of this excursion. It was 
only on my return to the mountain valley round Travnik, in the 
middle of May, that I found the spring commencing there 
also. After having made a rich harvest in that place, till the 
end of May, I proceeded, in the beginning of June, in a south- 
west direction to the mountains of Sutyuska, Varesk, and 
Serajevo. My intention of exploring from Poinizza the schistose 
mountains of Secy, and the Vranizza, was frustrated by the hostile 
conduct and stupid suspicions of the inhabitants, as well as by the 
fresh-fallen snow, and I returned a second time to Travnik. Here 
the most brilliant prospects opened for the further prosecution of 
my journey, as I received from the Governor of Bosnia, the Vizier 
Kiamil Pacha, the favour of a more positive Bujuruddu, together 
with the free disposal of a Kavas, and the promise of the necessary 
horses gratis. With the intention, under such favourable auspices, 
of going over the whole of the mountain chain from Secz to’ 
. Bertiscus, I sent a Kiradji on horseback to Spalato for a fresh 
supply of paper. In the meantime, I made a good collection in the 
neighbourhood of Travnik, on the calcareous mountain of Vlassick ; 
but after a four days’ sojourn in these mountains, I was obliged 
to return to Travnik, on account of the itch which I had caught 
while bivouacking with the shepherds. In the very first excursion 
I made from Travnik, after the recovery of my health, and whilst 
awaiting my paper, on the 6th of July, I was attacked, without — 
any provocation, by a Bosniak, named Osman, who fell upon me — 
with his sword. Being unarmed, it was with the greatest dif- - 
ficulty I saved my life. On this occasion I received a wound, - 
which then kept me twelve days in bed, and which now, after 
full two months, is not yet completely healed, and deprives me 
of the use of my right arm. To this misfortune was added, - 
during my confinement, another event most untoward for the - 
prosecution of my undertaking, the recall of Kiamil Pacha. | 
Unable now to make any further collections during the re- 
mainder of the favourable season, and moreover, by the de- 
. parture of the Vizier whose protection alone rendered my stay in 
Bosnia possible, being no Mnri ma pen to reckon uper the 
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