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the China mail on the 4th of August, 1846; he went of course to 

 Hongkong, and then up the coast as far as Shanghae, and returned 

 by the same route to Singapore; to Calcutta, and on by Benares, Agra, 

 and Delhi to Lahore. He next journeyed through Cashmere (and was 

 treated as a prince by Goolab Sing), and afterwards through Burdak- 

 shar, beyond Gilgit, to about the 35^ of N. lat- He made a short turn 

 into Little Tibet, and returned through Cashmere to Lahore. He then 

 went to Nepal, and afterwards made the excursion over the Himalaya 

 into Tibet to the lakes, which are -the sources of the Indus and Sutlej, 

 with Captain Strachey, and of which you say he is writing the particu- 

 lars. He returned through Agra to Bombay, and home again by 

 Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar. He seems to have left Bombay about 

 the 3rd t)f April, 1849, and arrived at Suez on the 19th. He re- 

 mained in Egypt, visiting the Pyramids, etc., till the 12 th of May, 

 passed Gibraltar on the 23rd, and Cape St. Vincent on the 24th of 

 May, 1849. On his return from India in 1849, he formed here an 

 Arboretum, principally for the Coiuferm^ to which he seemed most 

 partial. He had, however, for years previously, been bringing plants 

 together, and planting them in the garden, so far as the space would 

 permit ; and he had a good number of plants potted before he went out, 

 which were ready for planting on his return. 



" I have no materials here to give you information as to his proceed- 

 ings in 1850-1. In 1852 he was again in Ireland ; I do not remember 

 what parts he visited, but he had settled down in DubUn for some time, 

 when, at the end of October, 1852, he was summoned home by the 

 sudden death (that is, after a few days' illness) of his last surviving 

 sister. In the summer and autumn of 1853, he was, I believe, princi- 

 pally at home. On the 3rd of January, 1854, he started again, mi 

 Southampton, for Egj'pt, and arrived at Alexandria on the 20th, and 

 went on the same afternoon to Cairo ; where, having secured a good 

 Dragoman at Malta, he soon provided himself with a boat (50 feet long, 

 by 10 feet beam), and a crew of eight men and a boy, and all requisites 

 for the voyage, and on the 24th started alone (not to be encumbered 

 wnth an untried compaaion) up the Nile, determining not to stop for 

 anything on going up, but take every advantage of the wind, and visit 

 everything on his descent with the stream. He passed the first cataract 

 on the 13th of February, and entering Nubia, went on to Aboo Zimbel 

 (about forty miles below the second cataract), where, from the slow 



