Very soon i am going to a ball given by the duchesse de maufrigneuse, and i shall be presented to the society i am so eager to know. I put my face against her wet fur. On october 19, 1852, the explorer samuel seaton called at jermyn house with a manuscript of notes collected among the ongas, believing that certain legends of a gray city of white apes ruled by a white god might prove valuable to the ethnologist.