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know to be new and undiscribed; and which I should otherwise have remained without. I have made some very curious observations on floating mollusca and have, thanks to Capt Scammon been able to keep my travel constantly going. I have made many colored drawings from life of perishable and changeable, objects and also taken copious notes, on every thing I have noticed of interest. I am very sorry to have so few names beside my own to set against the record of this years work, but it has been one fight against ill will, prejudice, and petty spite, ever since we started; and almost all of our party went up the Frazer, with Rothrock. Bishoff has stood out like a man, against sea sickness, arsenical poison and poor fare, I am proud to call the old ^[[Dutchman]] my friend and I have no doubt the old man would die if he thought he could advance Natural History by so doing. When some officious asses were trying to soothe him when sick, by crying down K. for bringing him out at all; the old man spoke up stoutly and said the came of his own choice and would not go back if he could, but that if he made good collections, he was satisfied; they might drop him overboard, he had no friends! Which rather puzzled some of the pachy-derms. He will make his record I have no fear about it.