20 Captain Postans on the Bitichi Tribes inhabiting Sindh, 
dents at New Harmony, and have left names which will ever 
be respected by all students in the natural sciences. -Speak- 
ing of these gentlemen, who, we believe, to be now all num- 
bered with the dead, another name of one departed, whose 
talents were of service to the Prince, should not be passed 
unnoticed by us, who long reckoned him among our most in- 
timate friends, as a steady, enlightened, and public-spirited 
man,—we mean, Colonel William Thorn, K. H., one who dis- 
tinguished himself in the wars of India under Lord Lake, 
shared in the daring enterprises of Major-General Sir Robert 
Gillespie, to whom he was Brigade-Major, and ultimately be- 
came Lieutenant-Colonel of the 23d Light Dragoons. He 
was author of Campaigns in India and in Java, and of a Life 
of General Gillespie. To the scientific ability of this officer 
is due the beautiful map, marking the Prince’s travels up 
the Missouri to the rocky mountains, and his various excur- 
sions in the United States. Finally, of the plates composing 
the magnificient atlas, and the smaller illustrations in the 
two volumes, amounting in all to forty-eight, besides vig- 
nettes, we have only to say, that they are by the hand of 
Karl Bodmer, an artist who accompanied Prince Maximilian, 
and whose talents are at once attested by the portraits of 
natives and the landscape scenery, which we believe to be 
unrivalled in any book of travels yet published. 
On the Bilucht Tribes inhabiting Sindh, in the Lower Valley of 
the Indus and Cutchi. By Captain T. PostTans. 
(Concluded from Vol. xxxvii. p. 402.) 
The style of living, as seen among the Sindhian Biltchis, 
is totally devoid of the little comfort even adopted by the in- 
habitants of India. Each district wherein they are located, 
possesses a small capital or head-quarters of the chief, which 
is only distinguished by the presence of a small mud fortifica- 
tion, from the usual reed and mud-built hovels comprising the 
Bilachi villages all over the country, which have an appear- 
ance of dirt and discomfort, unlike anything to be seen in the 
