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MEMOIR OF 
and almost every oilier iiland of note in these seas ; 
— my intended aL'i'ount of the estahlhhmmit of Sin- 
gapore ; — the liistoiy of my own administration ; — 
eaaiern gratnmai-s, dictionaries, and vocabuSarie-H ; — 
and Iii!*t, not l<;ast, a grand map of Sumatra, on wUicU 
I liad been employed sinco ray arrival Ufn*, and oil 
villi:;]!, for tb« \ml wix inoiitUa, I liad bestowed 
most my wboip undividwl attention. This however, 
wm uui all all my colleuiionsi in iialuml hiHiory, 
all uiy ^pli'ndid collection of drawings, upwards of 
2000 in nundjer, vviili all the valuable papers and 
notes of my friends Aniold antl Jack; and, to con- 
clude, I will merely notice^ that t lie re wsih Kcaree an 
uiil<nr)wn animal, bird, liea.^t or Bhh, or au interest- 
ing plant, ivhicb we bad not on board ; a living ta- 
pir, a new epeeii's of iiger, splendid phea*unf8, &c. 
dumesticaind for the voyage ; we were, in bbort, In 
ibis respeet, a perfect Noah'a Ark- 
" All — all has perished ; butj thank God, our 
lives have been spared, and we do not repine. " 
After this heavy dispeosation we might soppd^e 
a pert^un deBpondin<^, it was not so willi Sir Stam- 
ford ; and in no eveiil of his life did be exhibit so 
much energy. He bad seen the labours of twenty 
years, (lis collection of drawings, raanusi-ripts of hb 
ovi^n, and nf bin. vonipaniuim, who had falkn victima 
to iheir re^ea relies, the greater part of his private 
property, the presents of his friends, and tehtimonials 
of hia services, all swept away, reduced to usliea. in 
a few hours. But truly thankful for the preaervft- 
