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climate, and it was resolved that they should consent 
to separation from their fourth and only surviving 
daughter, rather than that she should run the risk of 
encountering the malaria. To these diseases his 
bosom friend and companion in research also fell a 
victim, and while under these severe dispensations, a 
voyage to Singapore was undertaken finally to ar- 
range the settlement, and to prepare for his departure 
from the East, after a residence of much labour, anxi- 
ety, and satisfaction, of much affliction and much hap- 
piness. 
At Singapore health and resignation of mind were 
in part restored. Many interesting productions were 
added to his private collection now immense, while 
several useful establishments and regulations were 
completed, and all in this part was arranged for depar- 
ture. He returned again to Bencoolen ; the ship which 
was intended to carry the late governor to his native 
country has arrived ; all his collections, great and 
invaluable, were on board ; and on the 2d February 
1824, Sir Stamford and his family embark in the 
Fame and sail for England with a fair wind. But 
early in the first night of their hopes and anticipa- 
tions, they were turned into distraction, and all their 
powers exerted to save life alone. We shall give 
the account of this dreadful calamity, written by Sir 
Stamford himself, two days after its occurrence, and 
leave the reader to judge what his feelings must 
have been. To Natural History it was the most 
extensive loss of materials she had ever sustained. 
“ We embarked on the 2d instant in the Fame, 
