[15] Montbéliard is the birthplace of Cuvier and of Laurillard.
The members of the "Société d'Émulation" at Montbéliard desire to express the deep regret which they have experienced at the premature death of their fellow-townsman M. Henri Mouhot. After a three years' journey in Cambodia and Siam, during which he devoted himself to researches which have been highly appreciated by the Geographical and Zoological Societies of London, he fell a victim at the early age of thirty-five to his love of science. His work remained unfinished, but it was gloriously commenced, and his name will not perish. The regret experienced by his friends is the greater from their conviction that had he lived he would have been still more an honour to his native town, and that the name of Mouhot would have ranked side by side with those illustrious ones which have already rendered Montbéliard famous in the department of Natural Science.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.
Map of CAMBODIA, THE LAO COUNTRY &c. _to illustrate the_ Route and Notes of M. Henri Mouhot. 1859-61.
_Pub^d for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Soc^y. by J. Murray, Albemarle Str^t. London, 1862._
_NB. This Map is used by Permission of the R. G. Soc^y. to illustrate M. Mouhot's Travels in Cambodia, &c.]
Page headers have been converted to headings.
The following apparent errors have been corrected:
(Illustration facing p. 60) "Therond" changed to "Thérond"
p. 198 "call and see." changed to "call and see.""
Other variant spellings and inconsistent punctuation have been left as printed.
p. 181 The fraction "16- /3" is incomplete in the printed book.
p. 239 The translations for "horse" and "goat" are identical.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 2 of 2), by Henri Mouhot