FRANCIS HAMILTON (ONCE BUCHANAN). xv 
published in three quarto volumes' exactly as it stood and not, as it should have been 
and as Buchanan had wished it to be, in a digested form. Luckily, he was able Ni 
provide for it a well-ordered index. 
The Nepal journey was after all only deferred by reason of the Mysore Survey, 
for Buchanan had hardly returned to Calcutta after the completion of the Mois 
journey when he was appointed to accompany the embassy that had been despatched 
under Captain Knox to the Court of Nepal Leaving Calcutta during the cold 
weather of 1801-02, Buchanan proceeded by river to Patna and marched from there 
by easy stages and with numerous halts through Saran and  Tirhoot, collecting and 
making notes of the vegetation. of the country by the way. 
n a letter dated 28th January 1802 from Dacca, а small village on the Nepal 
frontier, which was the last halting place in the Company's territories, where the 
mission waited till Captain Knox should be joined by some notables from Khatmandu, he 
asks Roxburgh to send him up a tative collector to join the mission. Roxburgh found, 
as was natural, that none of his Bengali collectors would face the risk of a visit to 
Nepal and suggested the deputation of his son William, who had lately been appointed 
Assistant Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, and who was а great personal friend of 
Buchanan’s, Replying from Bassaria om March 2nd, 1802, Buchanan shows how much 
this arrangement would have pleased him both on personal grounds and because the 
botanical work of the mission would thus have been greatly benefited. But he 
feared that for once Roxburgh’s influence would not be able to overcome the difficulties 
that slood in the way. DBuchanan’s anticipations were correct; young Roxburgh was 
not allowed to join the mission. 
4 
“Т shall be very happy if you succeed in sending William, but I am afraid you will not 
meet with success in the application to Government for the purpose. І spoke to Captain Knox 
on the subject, who informed me that very serious objections have been made by the Nepal 
Government to the number of Europeans now in company with him, although they are only the 
usual number attached to the number of troops composing the escort. : 
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I have taken a particular account of the cultivation in Bettiah, which will be sent down 
by and by to Government. No buckwheat is raised there. The Canabis sativus grows there 
spontaneously. 3 
I am much obliged to you for the genus named after me. Lueirero's having given а name 
to the Roxburghia will not at. all deprive you of that fino genus, but should it so happen, there are 
plenty of your own discoveries to which your name may be given. I had a letter from Smith 
the other day; he desires to be kindly remembered to you. ^ : * I had sent 
him and Sir Joseph four species of Gurgeon under the title of Hopes, whieh name he seems inclined 
to adopt. 
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dominions of Nepal and were received near the frontier by 
ith the greatest civility and attention. We have 
arrangsments have occasioned a long delay, but 
shall proceed towards the 
"We have made our entry into the 
many cf the principal men of the country w 
halted after advancing about two miles and political 
it is expected that every thing will be adjusted and that then we 
capitat.” 
1 A journey from Madras, through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, performed wader the orders of 
the Most Noble the Marquis of Wellesley, for the express purpose of кидин the ant s dgr тент ж = er 
Commerce, the Religion, Manners and Customs, the National aad Civil. History and Antiquis зп the Dominvons © 
the Rajah of Mysore and the countries acquired by the Honourable East India Company їп the late and former wars 
from Tippoo Sultan, 3 vols., 4to, London, 1807. 
