 They also received objects from local "rajahs" and went hunting themselves.In the garden of their compound, they cultivated local plants and kept water birds in a basin.In June 1818, they sent their first consignment to Paris, containing a skeleton of a Ganges river dolphin, a head of a "Tibetan ox", various species of little-known birds, some mineral samples and a drawing of a "tapir from Sumatra" that they had studied in Hastings' menagerie.