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Cartilage, TJtica, and other ancient to'mis ; but before reaching 

 Egypt he was so unfortunate as to be attacked by robbers, from 

 whom he barely escaped with his life, and with the entire loss of 

 his collections, notes, and drawings, including numerous copies 

 x)f inscriptions. He reached Alexandria, however, on the 17th of 

 June, after enduring extreme hardships. 



ISTotwithstanding the almost complete loss of his papers, Dr. 

 Earth's accurate memory, with the aid of letters he had written to 

 friends during the course of his journey, enabled him to publish 

 some account of it in 1848, under the title of ' Wanderings in 

 the Coast-lands of the Mediterranean.' 



Nothing discouraged by the suflerings he had undergone, Dr. 

 Earth, after a very short stay at home, again started in the pror- 

 secution of his design. Proceeding in the first instance to Cairo, 

 he ascended the jS'ile to Assouan, where he arrived in October 

 1846, and from thence visited the ruins of Berenice on the Eed 

 Sea by a hitherto untrodden route, and thence returned by Cos- 

 seir and Tor to Cairo ; from whence he proceeded to Graza, and 

 after a prolonged journey thi'ough Palestine and Syria, continued 

 his route through A^ia Minor to Constantiuople, and after visit- 

 ing Grreece reached his father's house again in December 1847. 



After a brief repose he began to prepare himself for the duties 

 of Professor of Greography in the University of Berlin, where he 

 commenced his lectures in 1849. 



He was not successful, however, as a teacher, and his course 

 terminated after a few discourses. His labours were to be be- 

 stowed in another direction. 



In the autumn of 1849 the Eughsh Grovernment determined 

 upon sending an expedition to Eornou, in the interior of Africa, 

 with a "S'iew to the promotion of commerce and the abolition of 

 the slave trade. The expedition was placed under the command 

 of Mr. James Eichardson, with whom Mere associated Dr. Earth 

 and his fellow countryman Dr. Overweg. 



Starting from England in the middle of iSTovember, the two 

 Grermans reached Tripoli on the 11th of December, where they 

 were joined by Eichardson a few days later ; but the expedition 

 did not quit Tripoli till the following March. Traversing the 

 Sahara, with considerable risk and occasional sufi"ering, it reached 

 the city of Tintellust, the capital of the kingdom of Air, in Sep- 

 tember, and Soudan in the month of November. There the expe- 

 dition, long distracted by divided views and incompatibilities of 

 character, appears to have been broken up, the three members of 



