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of time, I do not think that more than six years were really occupied 

 in collecting. 



I find that my Eastern collections amounted to : 



310 specimens of Mammalia. 



125,660 specimens of natural history. 



It now only remains for me to thank all those Mends to whom I 

 am indebted for assistance or information. My thanks are more es- 

 pecially due to the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 through whose valuable recommendations I obtained important aid 

 from our own Government and from that of Holland ; and to Mr. 

 William Wilson Saunders, whose kind and liberal encouragement in 

 the early portion of my journey was of great service to me. I am 

 also greatly indebted to Mr. Samuel Stevens (who acted as my agent), 

 both for the care he took of my collections, and for the untiring as- 

 siduity with which he kept me supplied, both with useful informa- 

 tion, and with whatever necessaries I required. 



I trust that these, and all other friends who have been in any way 

 interested in my travels and collections, may derive from the perusal 

 of my book some faint reflection of the pleasures I myself enjoyed 

 amid the scenes and objects it describes. 



