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second to the king, lie ended his career by being cruelly murdered, 
bis patron tacitly consenting. 
“ I now hurried home. The cremation of the Queen Consort, who 
died on the 9th of September, was to take place on the 18th of April. 
The solemnities and ceremonies had already commenced a week pre¬ 
viously. The king himself lit the pile—the Governors of nearly all 
the provinces were present, and the crowd assembled was from 15,000 
to 16.000 persons—if not more. The king has since made a pil¬ 
grimage to Peehaburi to visit the cave, and he has returned. I pre¬ 
sume we shall now fall back to our every-day life. 
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“ You have perhaps seen already in the papers a notice of the 
death of M. Mahout, a zealous collector of objects of Natural His¬ 
tory, combining with it scientific knowledge. He was a Frenchman 
by birth, but English naturalists and friends of the science sent him 
to make collections in Siam, Cambodia, Tonquin, Ac.: at the limits 
of the latter, he fell a victim to jungle-fever. His collections have 
been brought safely to Bangkok, and forwarded to London. His 
discoveries were principally grand in serpents, shells, and insects ; and 
you must have frequently seen notices in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society,’ &c., of what he found. 
“ My brother Richard, who accompanied me during the latter part 
of my Guiana travels, on account of the Prussian Government, and 
who is now settled in S. Australia, near Adelaide, has given rather 
an interesting account of Gould’s Leipoa occllata. Richard purposes 
to undertake a journey to the Murray district:—farming affairs, it 
seems, as with the majority of persons once initiated in the life of 
travelling in the bush, do not agree with him,—nor do they succeed 
in agricultural pursuits. He writes to me that during the last six 
months, taking only each Saturday for such a purpose, he has col¬ 
lected about 100 birds, 70 Amphibia , and 40 species of fishes. As 
far as I understand, from bis letter, he labours for the museum at 
Berlin, and ha3 the patronage of the Professors of Natural History 
there. 
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“ That bird so interesting to me, the Diardiyallus Crawfurdii* 
seems to belong to the Shan States. One of the Governors of those 
* D. pralatus, Pr. Bonap. j JD. fasciolatus , Bl., J. A. S. XXVII % 280. 
