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372 FURTHER INDIA. BOOK VIII. prepared for publication by himself, and want the explanatory touches which only an author can give to his own work. Though his melancholy death prevented M. Mouhot from obtaining all the credit he was entitled to for his discovery, it has borne rich fruit as far as the public are concerned. The next person who visited these ruins was the very learned Dr. Adolph Bastian ; 1 who wrote a most recondite but very unsatisfactory work on the Indo-Chinese nations, in five volumes. The next visit was paid by Mr. J. Thomson, a professional photographer at Singapore, who at considerable expense and risk carried his photographic apparatus to the spot, and brought away a plan of the great temple at Angkor Vat, with some thirty photographs of it, besides views of other places in the neighbourhood. Since that time the French have sent a succession of well- equipped expeditions to the place ; the first, under Captain Doudart de Lagree in 1866 and a second in 1873. His unfortunate death on the frontiers of China prevented his ever working out his results to the extent he no doubt would have done had he lived to return home. They were, however, published as he left them by Lieutenant T. Gamier, the second in command, with notes and additions of his own. 2 As they, however, could not complete the investigation, a third expedition was fitted out under Captain L. Delaporte, who had taken part in the previous expeditions. He returned to France in 1874, bringing with him not only detailed plans of some of the temples, but copies of numerous inscriptions and a large collection of antiquities and casts. These were at first located in the Chateau of Compiegne, but were afterwards removed to Paris and arranged in the Trocadero Museum. Captain Delaporte's work 3 was published in 1880. He was followed by other travellers who shortly after their return brought out the results of their investigations, M. T. Moura, 4 A. Tissandier, 5 Fournereau, 6 Captain E. Lunet de Lajonquiere, 7 1 ' Die Volker der Oestlichen Asien,' von Dr. A. Bastian. Leipzig, 1866. He also wrote an account of the ruins in the 'Journal of the Royal Geographical Society' (vol. xxxv.), and four papers in the ' Ausland ' (Nos. 47-50). . a ' Voyage d' Exploration en Indo - Chine,' 2 vols. quarto and folio Atlas of plates. Paris, 1873 ; also ' Explorations et Missions: Extraits de ses Manuscripts,' par M. A. B. Villemereul. Paris 1883. 3 'Voyage au Cambodge, 1' Architecture khmere.' 4to. 1880. 4 'LeRoyaumede Cambodge.' 2 vols. 8vo. 1883. 5 'Cambodge et Java: Ruines khmeres et javanaises, 1893-94.' 4to. 1896. 6 'Les Ruines d' Angkor.' 4to. 1900. 7 ' Atlas Archeologique de 1'Indo- Chine : Monuments du Champa et du Cambodge,' fol. 1901 ; ' Inventaire archeologique et descriptif des Monu- ments du Cambodge.' 2 vols. Imp. 8vo. 1902-1907.