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OBITUARY.— HOLMAN. 
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Netherlands, The narrative of these travels went through four 
editions. 
In his next journeys he traversed Russia, Siberia, Poland, 
Austria, Saxony, Prussia, and Planover, during the years 1822, 1823, 
and 1824. While passing through the Russian territories he was 
suspected to be a spy, and was conducted as a state prisoner from 
the interior of Siberia to the frontier ; having penetrated during 
that journey to 1000 miles beyond Tobolsk. Nor is it the least won- 
derful feature in these enterprises that, although when at home he 
was always attended by a servant on whose arm he leaned, he 
never on any occasion took a servant abroad, always travelling 
alone, and trusting to his own sagacity, and the sympathy which 
never failed him wherever he went, for safe conduct through all 
emergencies and perils. His Russian travels, curious in their details 
and full of adventure, ran through three editions. 
In 1834 he published his principal work, recording a still wider 
field of research, entitled a * Voyage Round the World,’ in four 
volumes. This publication was dedicated to Queen Victoria, 
through whose kindness he had previously obtained a dispensation 
from residence at Windsor; an act of gracious protection which he 
spoke of to the last hour of his life in terms of deep gratitude. 
The ‘Voyage Round the World’ may be considered his most 
elaborate production. It embraced the Journals of a vast route, 
including Africa, Asia, Australasia, and America, as explored 
between the years 1827 and 1832 ; and is, in reference to the mass 
of information it contains, and the peculiar situation of the author, 
an extraordinary literary monument of energy and perseverance. 
Although Lieut. Holman had now twice circumnavigated the 
globe, visited most countries, and made himself familiar with their 
geography, internal industry, and external relations, the passion for 
exploring distant scenes and gathering fresh information survived 
even the physical strength necessary to its safe indulgence. Of him, 
indeed, it may be said, that his eager soul subjected its feeble tene- 
ment to the severest tests. Few men of the strongest constitutions 
could have endured the fatigues which the Blind Traveller volun- 
tarily undertook ; and at an age when most men seek repose, he 
was still found in motion, on the Danube or near Constantinople ; at- 
tending to the processes of wine making in Portugal, or visiting the 
scene of some Scriptural tradition at Jerusalem. His last journeys 
were made through Spain and Portugal, Wallachia, Moldavia, and 
Montenegro, Syria and Turkey, and his final employment was the 
