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3 sanious pus. All the other abdominal viscera were perfeetly:
4 healthy. :
5 MAC LENNAN.
6 REPORT OF CAPTAIN BRIOLLE,
7 COMMANDING THE SHIP NYMPHE, OF BORDEAUX, ON THE DEATH
8 AND OBSEQUIES OF VICTOR JACQUEMONT.
9 TO M. DE PRIGNY, COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF THE
10 NAVY AT BORDEAUX.
11 Monsieur LE ComMissAIRE GENERAL,
12 Being at Bombay in the month of December last, when M.
13 Victor Jacquemont had just ended his scientifie journey, I
14 hastened to visit a countryman whom all the papers of India
15 concurred in placing in the foremost rank of distinguished
16 naturalists, but who, in consequence of the fatigues and
17 privations with which he had to contend in his laborious
18 researches, was unfortunately attacked with liver complaint of
19 a very alarming nature. I found him in bed, scientifically
20 discoursing with the most eminent physician of the country,
21 under whose care the Governor had placed him, and explaining
22 with the utmost calmness how, in two or three days, he should
23 be freed from his cruel sufferings, but at the expense of his
24 life, as an effusion would take place internally, and he should
25 not have the slightest chance of recovery.
26 His physician having absented himself for a few hours, he
27 expatiated much upon this gentleman’s abilities, and upon the
28 interest and attention which the Government of Bombay
29 unceasingly showed him; but he added again, that he had
30 only three or four days more to live, that all the assistance of
31 art was useless, and that having terminated his manuscripts,