[Illustration: Water-carrier at Timor. (Fac-simile of early engraving.)]
The Géographe entered Lorient roadstead upon the 23rd of March, and three days later the vast collection of natural curiosities was landed.
The narrative says, "Besides an immense number of cases, containing minerals, dried plants, fish, reptiles, and zoophytes, preserved in brandy, stuffed or dissected quadrupeds and birds, we had seventy large cases filled with vegetables in their natural state, comprising nearly two hundred species of useful plants, and about six hundred varieties of seeds. In addition to all this, at least a hundred living animals."
We cannot better complete our account of the results of this expedition than by giving an extract from the report laid before the Government by the Institute, relating mo……
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