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NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SAMARANG, 

 during the years 1843-46. By Capt. Sir EDWARD BELCHER, 

 C.B., F.R.A.S. and G.S., Commander of the Expedition. 

 With a Popular Summary of the Natural History of the 

 islands visited, by ARTHUR ADAMS, F.L.S. 



Commencing at Borneo, the Expedition extended as far north as 

 Korea and Japan, including within its limits the islands of duel- 

 part and Loo-Choo, the Me'ia-co-shimah and Batanese Groups, the 

 Philippine and Sooloo Archipelagos, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo, 

 with other islands of the Blue and Yellow Seas. 



"These volumes give the official and authorized account of the surveying 

 voyage of the Samarang in the Eastern Archipelago and Northern Seas of China 

 and Japan. Besides much geographical and practical information, Capt. Belcher's 

 Narrative contains a close and mature view of the ministers and mouarchs of 

 those distant regions. Uuelpart and the Korean Archipelago are new ground." 

 Examiner. 



%* In 2 vols., 8vo, 964 pp., 35 Charts, Coloured Plates, and 

 Etchings. Price 36*. cloth. 



TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL; principally 

 through the Northern Provinces and the Gold and Diamond \ 

 Districts, during the years 1836-41. By the late GEORGE ; 

 GARDNER, M.D., F.L.S., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens of Ceylon. Second and cheaper Edition. 



" When camping out on the mountain-top or in the wilderness ; roughing it in 

 his long journeys through the interior ; observing the very singular mode of life 

 there presented to his notice ; describing the curious characters that fell under his 

 observation, the arts or substitutes for arts of the people, and the natural pro- 

 ductions of the country these Travels in the Interior of Brazil are full of 

 attraction. The book, like the country it describes, is full of new matter." 

 Spectator. 



" The narrative of his varied adventures forms not only to the enthusiastic 

 botanist, but to the general reader, an exceedingly entertaining and also in- 

 structive book, from the new view which it gives of the society of Brazil particu- 

 larly in its less known provinces." Taifs Edinburgh Magazine. 



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In one volume octavo, with a Map of the Author's Route 

 and View of the Organ Mountains. Price 12s. cloth ; 1 8s. bound. 



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