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WILLIAM FERGUSON. Born July, 1820. Died at Colombo, 
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The Medical Bazaar drug known as siritekku, Gunta Baringi. 
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JOHN FRANCIS JULIUS VON HAAST. Born at Bonn, May 1, 
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Grammar School of Bonn and Koln, and at the University of 
Bonn. Went to New Zealand in 1858 as agent for a business firm 
to report upon its fitness for emigration from Germany. After- 
wards accompanied Hochstetter in his explorations of New 
Zealand, and then himself explored several districts at request of 
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