[222] In 1841, a brother of Mr. Bowlby was appointed to the Army Medical Department, and ordered to the West Indies. From the first, he expressed a foreboding of death by yellow fever, an event which happened shortly after his arrival there. Nor is his a singular instance of the same kind; several have been met with in India. [223] In the official position of P.M.O. [224] Chiefly the Taipings. [225] That is, the Treaty of Tientsin, dated 1858, was ratified, and, together with a Convention of Peace, signed by Lord Elgin and Prince Kung. [226] Chiefly privet (_Ligusticum_) and lycium. Among the representatives of British plants were the dock, dandelion, and ivy-leaved veronica. [227] On December 16. [228] Dr. Galbraith. [229] Messrs. Dent. [230] _Copychus saularis._ [231] Colonel Muter. [232] On February 9. [233] Details are given in my book _China from a Medical Point of View_, p. 437. [234] _Zysiphus jujuba._ [235] _Holothuria._ [236] Mr. Blodgett. [237] 9th. _Cypsilis affinis_. [238] On March 22, 1861. [239] Hienfung. [240] Ezekiel xxvii. 23; xxix. 19. [241] The same that now stands on the Thames Embankment. [242] The _Trent_. [243] At the former Hôtel de Lille et d’Albion, now Hôtel St. James. [244] Something like its counterpart exists at Carrick-a-reed, near the Giant’s Causeway, Ireland. [245] Receiving a monthly allowance of 300 Rs. [246] Named after Mahomed ibn Abd-el Wahab, born 1691; a puritanical sect of Mahomedans. [247] Subsequently destroyed by the _Kerseage_, off Cherbourg. [248] Mr. Eddis, of Hazalabut. [249] At the time of his death sixteen sons of Dost Mahomed (Mahomed Akbar and Ghulam Hyder, the two heirs-designate in succession, died before their father) were alive, of whom the following are named in relation to the events above alluded to, namely: (1) Mahomed Afzul Khan; (2) Mahomed Azim Khan: these by a wife not of Royal blood. (3) Sheer Ali Khan; (4) Mahomed Amir Khan; (5) Mahomed Sharif Khan: these by a favourite Popalzai wife. (6) Wali Mahomed Khan; (7) Faiz Mahomed Khan: these by a third wife. Afzul Khan had a son Abdur Raman Khan, the present Amir of Affghanistan, and Sheer Ali had five sons--Ali Khan, Yakub Khan, Ibrahim Khan, Ayub Khan, and Abdul Jan. [250] See _Forty-one Years in India_, by Lord Roberts, vol. ii., pp. 41-43. [251] Referred to B.C. 1400--about. [252] Chiefly of Sâl. _Vateria_, interspersed with Bauhinia. [253] _Eudynemus._ [254] The Jain sect deny the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It dates from the sixth or seventh century A.D.; culminated in the eleventh, and declined in the twelfth. [255] See _India in Greece_, by Pocock. [256] Under command of Sir Henry Tombs. [257] My wife and Miss Dickson with me. [258] So do some of the tribes in the Himalayahs. So did the ancient Spartans. [259] A severe epidemic of cholera among the British troops.