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and had his temples rubbed with blistering fluid. On the morning of 

 the 10th he was somewhat better, but still unable to talk connectedly 

 or distinctly ; towards evening he became comatose, and continued so 

 until 5 a. m. of the 11th, when he expired without a groan or struggle. 

 On the 12th at 8 a. m. his remains were interred in the burial ground of 

 this station. I read the funeral service over him, in the presence of al- 

 most all the gentlemen at the place. 



The effects consisted of 4 boxes of books and papers, the suit of blue 

 clothes which he always wore and in which he died, a few shirts and 

 one cooking pot. His food was confined to tea, of which he was very 

 fond, and plain boiled rice of which he ate very little. On a mat on 

 the floor with a box of books on the four sides, he sat, ate, slept, and 

 studied, never undressed at night, and rarely went out during the 

 day. He never drank wine or spirit, or used tobacco or other stimu- 

 lants.* * * * 



Annexed is a detailed list of the contents of the boxes. Among his pa- 

 pers were found the bank notes for Rs. 300, to which he alluded before 

 his death, and a memorandum regarding Government Paper for Rs. 

 5,000, which it is stated in transcript of a letter to the Government, dat- 

 ed 8th February, 1842, it was his wish to leave at his death to the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal for any literary purpose. Cash to the number 

 of Rupees 224 of various coinage, and a waist belt containing 26 gold 

 pieces, (Dutch ducats I believe,) completes the money part of his effects. 

 From this I shall deduct the funeral expenses and wages due to his 

 Lepcha servant, and retain the remainder, along with the books and 

 papers, until I receive the orders of Government for disposing of them. 

 As the deceased was not a British subject, I have not made the usual 

 advertisement of the possession of his effects, nor have I taken charge 

 of them in the Civil Court, but in my capacity of Political Officer in this 

 direction. 



From a letter of James Prinsep's among the papers, I gather that he 

 was a native of the town of " Pest," or Pesth, in the province of Tran- 

 sylvania, and I have found transcript of a letter addressed by him to the 

 Austrian Ambassador in London, apparently on matters connected with 

 his native country ; I presume therefore, that the proper mode of mak- 

 ing his death known to his relations, if such there be, and of disposing 



