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occurred, and which it was hoped that we might succeed in seeing 

 before the animal was destroyed. 



On reaching Liidowica we were at once admitted within the 

 cordon, when we found that this animal, together with nine others 

 which had Leen exposed to the infection with him, had already 

 been slaughtered and buried. An application was made to have 

 the bodies disinterred, but which, for want of due formality, was 

 not complied with, Liidowica, in fact, being outside the circle 

 of Alt Sandec, to which M. Zankel was attached, and we not 

 having with us a special order from the President to the authori- 

 ties of the circle we were now in for the disinterment. 



Tlie slaughtering had swept away all the animals in the 

 village which were known to have been exposed to the infec- 

 tious influence of the disease, and consequently we pressed for- 

 ward through the mountain passes, which here chiefly consisted 

 of the partially-dried beds of rivers and streams, to another 

 village called Zabrzez. It was somewhat singular that at Zabrzez 

 we came upon the identical farm where the malady had first shown 

 itself in this locality, and saw on the premises four of the ori- 

 ginal Steppe oxen by which it had been brought. Three of 

 these had been the subjects of the disease, but had recovered, and 

 the fourth had resisted the contagion throughout, as was believed, 

 because he had before been affected. They were tied up to 

 fatten, and had every appearance of perfect health, having no 

 trace of disease of any kind about them. Besides these, there 

 were nine other animals on the farm in quarantine, consisting of 

 three oxen, a young bull, and five cows. They also were feeding, 

 and looking well. Twelve days had elapsed since the occurrence 

 of the last death ; and we learned that, should no other case 

 happen, the animals would not be liberated until the completion 

 of the twenty-first day from the time of the last death. 



Leaving Zabrzez, we went on to Kamienica, five miles distant, 

 and the head-quarters of the Austrian commission, which had 

 been specially sent to administer the sanitary laws applicable 

 to the rinderpest. The commission was constituted of Dr. Anton 

 Karger and M. Johann Rucki, " Imperial Royal Commissioners 

 of Sanitary Police for Epizootics ;" and from them, during our 

 entire stay, we not only experienced all the assistance in their 

 power in furtherance of our inquiry, but likewise the greatest 

 kindness and friendship. We were thus left free to pass as often 

 as occasion required between Kamienica and Zabrzez, and so to 

 act in our investigations, both within and without the cordon, as 

 scarcely could be anticipated, when the austerity of military dis- 

 cipline in these cases is considered, and which compensated in 

 a great measure for our oat-straw beds and sour rye-bread repasts. 

 In Kamienica we found two quarantine stations, in one of which 



