1 small-pox wiis raging there in a most terrific nianner: so that,
2 during my four months’ stay at the house of the Nawnuh
3 Djubber-lChan, two of his daughters died. On toy request, the
4 Nawauh ordered inquiries to he made in the whole circuit of
5 Cubul, to discover- cows affected with cow-pax: but in vain.
6 At Cftbul, this operation was quite unknown. At that time,
7 I had forgotten having read somewhere that vaccine matter
8 might fie procured by inoculating the cows with the venomous
9 matter taken from tin small pox, and that the venom is thus
10 turned into a remedy.
11 The short description of my journey from Lahore, via Dhera-
12 frhasi-Klum and Guzriee, to Cabul. was puhlislied by Colonel
13 Sir 0. M. Wade, in 1831, in the report of the Asiatic Society at
14 < alcutta, with a map attached to if. The collection of plants
15 which I naade on this journey, I handed over to the late Baron
16 Jaquin, Professor of Botany at V ienna, who placed them under
17 tlic care of the late Doctor Endlicher and Professor Fenzel, to
18 arrange them; a part has been already published, under the
19 'itlc of Serf am ( H a.buhcutn, and the remaining larger portion
20 is near its completion, by Professor Fenzel. As for my collec¬
21 tion of antiques, they are. not unknown to the archaeological
22 world. They were published in the year 1835, by the Asiatic
23 Society at Paris, to which I had communicated all the results
24 1 had obtained by means of opening the cupolas (tombs) of
25 (abut and Jellalabnd, as also the coins and cameos which 1
26 bought when traversing Bokhara. On account of this commu¬
27 nication, I was admitted an honorary member of the Asiatic.
28 Society at Paris; hut my collection thereby lost its pecuniar,
29 value in London, so that I was obliged to forward to Paris
30 two gold pieces (mokadphisis) to a certain M. Bolliu for 3,000
31 francs, that sum exceeding any offer made to me in London.
32 Among other valuable curiosities, there was a Ikclriaii papyrus-
33 scroll, which had not then been opened, and the reader may find
34 it lithographed and published by the Asiatic Society at Paris in
35 183.5. I believe that to he the only Hadrian manuscript which
36 has ever been found. Having packed this collection in a case, f