While stationed in Egypt, he arranged the transport of Obaysch the hippopotamus to England in 1850.
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Murray spent several years travelling across Europe and America from 1835 and 1838, including several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835.
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Murray's heavy-handed attitude inflamed an existing dispute over Hashim Khan, one of the Shah's bodyguards and an officer in the Persian army, who took up a position as secretary in the British embassy against the wishes of the Shah and his prime minister.
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