380 ON MADDENIA AND DIPLARCHE, 



actual starvation and exhaustion, disclaiming most strongly having 

 used any personal violence, but, on the contrary, having endeavoured 

 to assist the only one of them they saw before his death, who had how- 

 ever, through fear or distrust, invariably pointed his gun w^hen any of 

 the natives offered to approach him. The unfortunate man now before 

 us was said to be one of them, the other lying somewhere amongst the 

 sand-hills to the eastward, in a spot which our native did not profess 



■ to know. He was of rather short stature, had on the remains of a 

 coarse white shirt, blue serge shirt, and moleskin trowscrs ; one blucher 

 boot, with a foot in it, was detached a few^ yards, and ihe other lay 

 near it, showing, with other evidences of severed limbs, that the body 



^ had been, after death, attacked by wild dogs. Two of these animals, 

 of large size, were seen near the spot, feeding on a piece of whale-flesh, 

 and Mr. Gregory got a long rifle-shot at them, but they succeeded in 

 getting clear off. Any attempt to describe the features or person of 

 the unfortunate man before us would be perfectly useless, the face and 

 hair having been totally destroyed, leaving the scalp still on the skull, 

 and some parchment-looking skin stretched over the skeleton of the 

 body. After ascertaining that no marks of personal violence appeared 

 on those parts of the head and body capable of showing any, the re- 

 mains were collected and removed to a neighbouring hollow, w4iere we 

 built over them a pile of limestone-rocks, six feet long and three feet 

 in height, with a large slab at the head, and left the poor fellow to re- 

 pose near tlie spot where he had so miserably terminated his fatal jour- 

 ney. The heap would doubtless soon have been covered by a hillock 

 of sand, and would become a collection of petrified bones. The posi- 

 tion is about three miles N.N.W. i W. from the Smooth Eocks west- 



ward of Cape Knob. 



{To le continued,) 



On Madbenia and Diplakche, neto Genera of Himalayan Plants; 

 hy J. D. HoOKEK, M.D., F.E.S., and T. Thomson, M.D., F.L.S. 

 With two Plates, XI. and XII. 



The following are two of the most remarkable new genera that have 

 hitherto presented themselves to us during the examination of our In- 

 dian Herbarium. Their very remarkable structure has induced us to 

 take the earliest opportunity of making them known, believing, as we 



