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2 small-pox was raging there in a most terrific manner ; so that,
3 during my four months’ stay at the house of the Nawaub
4 Djubber-Khan, two of his daughters died. On my request, the
5 Nawaub ordered inquiries to be made in the whole circuit of
6 Cabul, to discover cow^s affected with cow-pox ; but in vain.
7 At Cabul, this operation was quite unknown. At that time,
8 I had forgotten having read somewhere that vaccine matter
9 might be procured by inoculating the cows with the venomous
10 matter taken from the small-pox, and that the venom is thus
11 turned into a remedy.
12 The short description of my journey from Lahore, via Dhera-
13 Ghasi-Khan and Guznee, to Cabul, was published by Colonel
14 Sir C. M. Wade, in 1834, in the report of the Asiatic Society at
15 Calcutta, with a map attached to it. The collection of plants
16 which I made on this journey, I handed over to the late Baron
17 Jaquin, Professor of Botany at Vienna, who placed them under
18 the care of the late Doctor Endlicher and Professor Fenzel, to
19 arrange them ; a part has been already published, under the
20 title of Sertum Cabulicum , and the remaining larger portion
21 is near its completion, by Professor Fenzel. As for my collec-
22 tion of antiques, they are not unknown to the archaeological
23 world. They were published in the year 1835, by the Asiatic
24 Society at Paris, to which I had communicated all the results
25 I had obtained by means of opening the cupolas (tombs) of
26 Cabul and Jellalabad, as also the coins and cameos which I
27 bought when traversing Bokhara. On account of this commu-
28 nication, I was admitted an honorary member of the Asiatic
29 Society at Paris; but my collection thereby lost its pecuniary
30 value in London, so that I was obliged to forward to Paris
31 two gold pieces (mokadphisis) to a certain M. llollin for 3,000
32 francs, that sum exceeding any offer made to me in London.
33 Among other valuable curiosities, there was a Bactrian papyrus-
34 scroll, which had not then been opened, and the reader may find
35 it lithographed and published by the Asiatic Society at Paris in
36 1835. 1 believe that to be the only Bactrian manuscript which
37 has ever been found. Having packed this collection in a case, I