I Was Just Eight Years Away From England, But
As I Travelled About Fourteen Thousand Miles Within The
Archipelago, And Made Sixty Or Seventy Separate Journeys, Each
Involving Some Preparation And Loss Of Time, I Do Not Think That
More Than Six Years Were Really Occupied In Collecting.
I find that my Eastern collections amounted to:
310 specimens of Mammalia.
100 specimens of Reptiles.
8,050 specimens of Birds.
7,500 specimens of Shells.
13,100 specimens of Lepidoptera.
83,200 specimens of Coleoptera.
13,400 specimens of other Insects.
125,660 specimens of natural history in all.
It now only remains for me to thank all those friends to whom I
am indebted for assistance or information. My thanks are more
especially due to the Council of the Royal Geographical Society,
through whose valuable recommendations I obtained important aid
from our own Government and from that of Holland; and to Mr.
William Wilson Saunders, whose kind and liberal encouragement in
the early portion of my journey was of great service to me. I am
also greatly indebted to Mr. Samuel Stevens (who acted as my
agent), both for the care he took of my collections, and for the
untiring assiduity with which he kept me supplied, both with
useful information and with whatever necessaries I required.
I trust that these, and all other friends who have been in any
way interested in my travels and collections, may derive from the
perusal of my book, some faint reflexion of the pleasures I
myself enjoyed amid the scenes and objects it describes.
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