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victims of the selfish schemes of white adventurers. He was much 
moved by the sad havoe wrought by the Spaniards in the Marianne 
Islands, and repeated the story of persecution and cruelty accompany - 
ing the ‘‘reduction” of the natives as related by the Spaniards 
themselves.“ 
From the statement published by Kotzebue that the natives of Guam 
had been exterminated by the Spaniards a wrong impression has gone 
abroad. The facts are presented under the head of ‘*The modern 
inhabitants,” below.” 
The plants collected by the Romanzoff expedition were deposited in 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Duplicates were 
sent to the Hooker Herbarium, at Kew, England, and to the Univer- 
sity of Kiel, Germany. A number of the plants were described by 
Chamisso and Schlechtendal in the journal Linnea, the series beginning 
with the first paper of the first volume.’ In the introduction to this 
paper, Chamisso, in speaking of Eschscholtz, says, *‘Intimam insti- 
tuimus amicitiam nunquam obnubilandam, communiaque semper 
habuimus studia, labores, fructus; and in his Tagebuch he describes 
him as a young doctor from Dorpat, a naturalist and entomologist, shy 
and retiring by nature, but true and noble as gold. Such tributes 
reflect the character of their author. 
FREYCINET EXPEDITION. 
A little more than a year after Chamisso’s visit, on March 17, 1819, 
the French corvette Uranie, Louis de Freycinet commanding, arrived 
at Guam. With him were the botanist, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, 
the zoologists Quoy and Gaimard, and an artist named Arago. A 
stay of several months allowed the naturalists to make extensive col- 
lections and observations on the island of Guam, and the islands of 
Rota and Tinian were also visited by them. On the return voyage 
the Uran/e, while at the Falkland Islands, struck a rock and foundered. 
Gaudichaud’s collections were almost ruined. The hold, in which his 
herbarium was stowed, was flooded, and the plants saturated with sea 
water. Only a collector can appreciate the feelings of Gaudichaud 
when, several days afterwards, he fished them up and spread them out 
to dry as best he could. The collections were taken to France in the 
Physicienne, and deposited in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, at 
Paris. An interesting account of the vegetation of Guam was given 
«Der fromme Missioniir Don Diego Luis de San Vitores landete auf Guajan im 
Jahre 1667; er begehrte den Volkern das Heil zu bringen, aber es folgten ihm Sol- 
daten und Geschiitz. Noch vor dem Schlusse des Jahrhunderts war das Werk voll- 
bracht, und diese Nation war nicht mehr. Pacificar nennen’s die Spanier.’? Charvisto, 
Bemerkungen und Ansichten, p. 90. 
>See p. 117. 
¢ De Plantis in Expeditione speculatoria Romanzoffiana observatis, etc, Linnea, 
erster Band, Jahrgang, 1826, Berlin. 
