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spent a pleasant day, and after bidding a hearty farewell to 
the Captain and the officers of the good ship ‘ Miramar,’ we 
left on the 21st, waving from Karst a last adieu to the 
beautiful sea. 
The night passed quickly in dreams of Bedouins, Arab 
horses, slender minarets, lofty mountains, boundless deserts, 
the sacred Nile, the rustling groves of palms and sycamores, 
and the mysterious temples of Isis. Soon came the stern 
reality, for on waking at the Semmering we were greeted by 
a rough northerly gale, ice, and a country covered with a light 
mantle of snow. Nor was it much better in Vienna, where 
the sky was heavily clouded over, and the cold damp air 
chilled to the very bones the travellers accustomed to the 
Southern sun. 
The Expedition was over, and the party separated, 
but their thoughts still involuntarily turned back to the far 
Orient. 
Farewell! O golden, gorgeous, glowing East! 
Complete List of the Specimens obtained. 
HY Ai A! giv eras ais Satie 3 Smartt VAMPIRE ........ 1 
WOLF) anes ea eatods omen 9 GAZELLE 2... .. cee eee 1 
AFRICAN JACKAL ........ 7 Wirp Boar ............ 4 
Lares Astaric Jackan.... 1 Great Sporren Cuckoo .. 1 
Smarn Astatic Jackan.... 4 Prep KrIneFisHEeR........ 25 
Fennec (Deszet Fox).... 1 BivE-CHEEKED BrE-Eater . 38 
Desert Lynx .......... 2 Eayrrian Swirt ........ 3 
IcHNEUMON ............ 2 Lirrtz Grey Swirt...... 8 
Desert Hark .-........ 2 Barsapy Fatcon ........ 2 
Sypian Hare .......... 1 Lxsser Kestren ........ 20 
JERBOA ces eee cess eeeees 1 Sparrow-Hawk ........ 1 
