1 niEFACE.
2 As I hm mm but a part of ihe eountriet wlncli I «n Bbout to
3 . dBtaibe, h ia wBemary that I flhoold g^e an aeooimt of tiio
4 ' ^w"— fioiD wfaidi I haro diawn vay iiifiiniiatioii j and I taka tbo
5 oppoftmutjt thus aflbrdoili of adouMrledgpig my ofaUgHtionft to die
6 ^mllmeii fion iHMm I lime veeoivad iMiitaDGaii
7 I wm apgnffd fer a ynr on my jouniej to the Kuig of GMtfafnTa
8 court, and another year elapsed bdbfe the mianon was finally
9 dinolved. The whole of that period was employed in such encjuiries
10 regarding the kingdom of Caubid as were likely to be useful to the
11 Bntiflli government. The first part of the time was spent, by all the
12 members of the mission, in the acquisition of general information j
13 but during the remainder, ;i prrrisc ninn wns arranged among the
14 party, and a partii ular bratich ot the iuvestigation assigned to evesj
15 gentleman who look a share in it.
16 The geoj^rapli} w allotted to Lieutenant Mnrartnev, (Mr. Tickell,
17 the other 8ur\eyor, having been sent back to India v>ii duty;) and he
18 was assisleil by Captain llaper, already known to tiic rubhc by his
19 account of a Journey to the Sources of the Ganges. The climate,
20 toil, piodnoe end Imebandiy irare mdeitakeii by Lie^^tOfiJir^ine;
21 nd the tiade and xerome by Mr. Ridund Stfadicj.' "iPY^er^tory.
22 fell to Mr. Robert Alexander, and the goveniment and tfae^mdiiji^fs:
23 ef ibe people to me. L 3 v*N AI'C Y
24 We bad abundant opportunities of enquiiy wbtle in the A^ion
25 dominioni; and* after our . return we oontiniied to eseniine the
26 nomenMie nali?ei of tboee countries that aooomponied ih^ and those
27 whom we eonld meet wilb at Belly and in iti ne^bowbood.' We
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