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GENERAL INTRODUCTORY REPORTS.
On the 20th of September, 1854. we left England, under conditions most favour-
able for the researches with which we had the honour to be charged, and we arrived
in Bombay on the 26th October, 1854. In India, as in England, every official assistance
was most kindly given to us, and we found ourselves liberally provided with the
necessary orders to the respective civil and military authorities, and with diplomatic
introductions to the Courts of the Native States.1 These documents were of the most
essential importance in enabling us to extend our mission into countries, which, other-
wise, we could never have hoped to reach, and which, indeed, were far beyond the
limits of our original intention.
Notwithstanding, in the independent territories north of the Himalaya, and espe-
cially amongst tribes whose hostile disposition often obliged us to travel in disguise
and conceal our instruments, our progress was not without many and unexpected
difficulties—difficulties which most unhappily ended in the lamentable death of our
dear brother, Adolphe, who was killed at Kashgar, in August, 1857.2
We met on our way home in Egypt, Hermann having come down from Tibet, by
the easterly route, via Calcutta, Robert by the westerly route, via, Bombay. We arrived
at Trieste on the 8th of June, 1857.
Our assistants had been allowed by the Government to continue their obser-
vations in the special branches of physical geography until March, 1858. To about
this date also extends the information received from those of our brother's establish-
ment, who returned after his death, from Turkistan.3
1 Lord Dalhousie and Lord Canning at Calcutta, Lord Harris at Madras, and Lord Elphinstone at Bombay,
most materially contributed to the uninterrupted and successful progress of our observations by their never failing
official assistance.
We are also indebted to the numerous friends, met with during our travels in India, for much valuable advice,
support, and scientific information. Amongst others we may mention Sir John Lawrence and Lord W. Hay, in the Punjab
and the Himalaya, Colonel Waugh and Major Thuillier, in Calcutta, and the Honourable Walter Elliot, in Madras, and
though we must refrain in this place from completing the list of names, we shall gladly avail ourselves of the many
opportunities which will occur in the course of our work for mentioning them in connection with the objects of our
researches.
- See. No. HI. of the General Introductory Reports.
:l During our travels "Reports on the proceedings of the Officers engaged in the Magnetic Survey of India"
were from time to time forwarded by us to the Government, who ordered them to be printed. With the exception
of the last Report, they were all written upon the march, and contain but the general outlines of the mutes
followed and of the objects observed.
Their titles are:
GENERAL INTRODUCTORY REPORTS.
On the 20th of September, 1854. we left England, under conditions most favour-
able for the researches with which we had the honour to be charged, and we arrived
in Bombay on the 26th October, 1854. In India, as in England, every official assistance
was most kindly given to us, and we found ourselves liberally provided with the
necessary orders to the respective civil and military authorities, and with diplomatic
introductions to the Courts of the Native States.1 These documents were of the most
essential importance in enabling us to extend our mission into countries, which, other-
wise, we could never have hoped to reach, and which, indeed, were far beyond the
limits of our original intention.
Notwithstanding, in the independent territories north of the Himalaya, and espe-
cially amongst tribes whose hostile disposition often obliged us to travel in disguise
and conceal our instruments, our progress was not without many and unexpected
difficulties—difficulties which most unhappily ended in the lamentable death of our
dear brother, Adolphe, who was killed at Kashgar, in August, 1857.2
We met on our way home in Egypt, Hermann having come down from Tibet, by
the easterly route, via Calcutta, Robert by the westerly route, via, Bombay. We arrived
at Trieste on the 8th of June, 1857.
Our assistants had been allowed by the Government to continue their obser-
vations in the special branches of physical geography until March, 1858. To about
this date also extends the information received from those of our brother's establish-
ment, who returned after his death, from Turkistan.3
1 Lord Dalhousie and Lord Canning at Calcutta, Lord Harris at Madras, and Lord Elphinstone at Bombay,
most materially contributed to the uninterrupted and successful progress of our observations by their never failing
official assistance.
We are also indebted to the numerous friends, met with during our travels in India, for much valuable advice,
support, and scientific information. Amongst others we may mention Sir John Lawrence and Lord W. Hay, in the Punjab
and the Himalaya, Colonel Waugh and Major Thuillier, in Calcutta, and the Honourable Walter Elliot, in Madras, and
though we must refrain in this place from completing the list of names, we shall gladly avail ourselves of the many
opportunities which will occur in the course of our work for mentioning them in connection with the objects of our
researches.
- See. No. HI. of the General Introductory Reports.
:l During our travels "Reports on the proceedings of the Officers engaged in the Magnetic Survey of India"
were from time to time forwarded by us to the Government, who ordered them to be printed. With the exception
of the last Report, they were all written upon the march, and contain but the general outlines of the mutes
followed and of the objects observed.
Their titles are: