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ing into Savoy by Mount Cenis, proceeding thence by CJiambery to 

 Geneva, and tlirough Switzerland to Basle, descending the Ebine 

 to the sea, and from Amsterdam passing by the Hague, Rotterdam, 

 and Antwerp to Brussels, returning to England, by Ostend, in 

 September 1821, An account of these travels was published by 

 him in 1822, under the title of " A Narrative of a Journey under- 

 taken in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, through France, Italy, 

 Savoy," &c. &c. In July 1822, he embarked alone from the London 

 Docks for St. Petersburg, and had proceeded through Russia into 

 Siberia, traversing it as far as Irkoutsk (2000 miles beyond To- 

 bolsk), intending to embark at Kamtschatka for Sitka on the north- 

 west coast of America, and thence to proceed to the Sandwich 

 Islands, &c., when his progress was checked by a mandate from 

 the Emperor of Russia, under which he was conveyed as a state 

 prisoner to the confines of Cracow, and there dismissed. The 

 motive for this proceeding was said to be a belief that he was an 

 English spy and that his blindness was only feigned. He then 

 proceeded through Austria, Bohemia, Saxony, Prussia, and Hanover 

 to Hamburgh, and arrived at Hull in June 1824. Of these travels 

 also a narrative was published in 1825. In July 1827 he proceeded 

 with Captain Owen of H.M.S. Eden to South Africa, visiting by 

 the way Madeira, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Sierra Leone, Cape Coast, 

 Accra, Eemando Po, Bonny, Calabar, &c.. Prince's Island and 

 Ascension; after leaving which island, falling in with a Dutch 

 galliot on its way to Rio de Janeiro, he transferred himself and 

 baggage to that vessel. Prom Rio he visited the gold mines, and 

 after journeying through the Brazils, quitted S. America for the 

 Cape of Good Hope in H.M. Brig Falcon, Captain Pole, and after 

 traversing the Cape Colony and part of CafFreland, left Simon's 

 Bay for Mauritius, Madagascar, the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, and 

 the Seychelles, returning thence to the Mauritius. He then pro- 

 ceeded to Colombo, and having travelled through Kandy and made 

 the ascent of Adam's Peak, embarked at Trincomalee for Pon- 

 dicherry and Madras, and thence for Bangalore, returning by 

 Chittoor and Arcot to Madras, from which he sailed for Masuli- 

 patam and Calcutta. In August 1830, he left that city for China, 

 visiting Penang, Malacca, Singapore, and Canton, whence he sailed 

 for Hobai't Town. He next traversed Van Diemen's Land, pro- 

 ceeded to Sydney, and after travelling in the interior of Australia, 

 left for England, visiting on his way home New Zealand, Bahia 

 and Plores, and arriving in August 1832. The narrative of these 

 ti'avels was pubhshed in four volumes in 1834 and 1835, under the 



