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The short description of my journey from Lahore, via^ 

 Dhera-Ghasi-Khan and Guznee, to Cabu), was pubh'shed by 

 Colonel Sir C. M. Wade, in 1834, in the report of the 

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta, with a map attached to it. 

 The collection of plants which I made on this journey, I 

 handed over to the late Baron Jaquin, Professor of Botany 

 at Vienna, who placed them under the care of the late 

 Doctor Endlicher and Professor Fenzel, to arrange them ; 

 a part has been already published, under the title of 

 Settum Cabulicum, and the remaining larger portion is near 

 its completion, by Professor Fenzel. As for my collection 

 of antiques, they are not unknown to the archaeological 

 world. They were published in the year 1835, by the 

 Asiatic Society at Paris, to which I had communicated all 

 the results I had obtained by means of opening the cupolas 

 (tombs ) of Cabul and Jellalabad, as also the coins and 

 cameos which I bought when traversing Bokhara. On 

 account of this communication, I was admitted an honorary 

 member of the Asiatic Society at Paris; but my collection 

 thereby lost its pecuniary value in London, so that I was 

 obliged to forward to Paris two gold pieces (mokadphisis ) 

 to a certain M. Rollin for 3,000 francs, that sum exceeding 

 any offer made to me in London. Among other valuable 

 curiosities, there was a Bactrian papyrus-scroll, which had 

 not then been opened, and the reader may find it litho- 

 graphed and published by the Asiatic Society at Paris in 1835, 

 I believe that to be the only Bactrian manuscript which 

 has ever been found. Having packed this collection in a 

 case, I sent it from London, addressed to the banker 

 Geymuller, at Vienna^ who afterwards became bankrupt, 

 and the box containing those valuable curiosities remained 

 full fifteen years at the custom-house at Vienna, unknown 

 to me, notwithstanding many inquiries. To my astonish- 

 ment and regret, I learned, on my arrival at Vienna ( July 

 20, 1850 ), that the box, after an interval of fifteen years, 

 had been sold by auction, a fortnight previous to my arrival 

 ( July 5 ). for about three pounds, as belonging to the 

 creditors of Geymuller, with a pretext that the real 



