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of past time and labour. Wherever fate carries you, remember, 

 I beg you, an honest Swiss, who reckons himself among the most 

 sincere of your friends. 



HADJ IBRAHIM. 



Give my best compliments to Captain Boog, the memory of 

 whose friendly hospitality and conversation will certainly never 

 be forgotten by me, and if you write to me from Bombay, do not 



fail to give me of his news Remember Rennell's Herodotus 



and Seetzen's fate ; — Written in haste, with a reed. 



These last requests of Mr. Burckhardt regarding the Indian sect 

 of Mussulmans, called Ismayles, the illustration of an inter- 

 esting portion of Rennell's Herodotus, and an inquiry into Dr. 

 Seetzen's fate, have all been scrupulously executed. They 

 were the requests of a man who possessed an ardour in the 

 pursuit of his objects, which made him in earnest in all that he 

 ever did or said ; and they were made to one who, like him- 

 self, would have prosecuted such inquiries for their own sake, 

 but who had an additional motive to actuate him, in the friend- 

 ship which he entertained for the excellent individual who pro- 

 posed them. 



The inquiry regarding the Ismayles was not so satisfactorily 

 answered as had been hoped for, since the same mysterious 

 secrecy as Mr. Burckhardt himself complained of in his inter- 

 course with the Ismayles of Mecca, has been found by the in- 

 quirer to prevail in an equal degree among those of India. 

 The short notice of them which was drawn up, however, and 

 ransmitted to Mr. Burckhardt, has been preserved. 



The portion of Rennell's Herodotus,which Mr. Burckhardt was 

 desirous of having illustrated by the person to whom he wrote, 

 was the Chapter on Babylon, of which it was probable this 

 person might have an opportunity of examining the remains. 

 This expectation has been realized, and the observations to 

 which it gave rise have been incorporated with a larger work, 



