644 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
larger portion of his time has been spent, as Botanists are 
well aware, in South Africa, and much of it in company with 
Ecklon. Since Ecklon left the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Zeyher 
has made many journeys and passed a long while at Uiten- 
hage, with the vegetation of which district our Herbaria are 
greatly enriched through his means. But the most remark- 
able of his journeys was performed in company with Mr. 
Burke, who, as already mentioned in the 2nd volume of this 
Journal, p. 163, was charged by the Earl of Derby to under- 
take a Natural History mission into the interior, towards the 
tropics, in a direction north of Uitenhage, when they reached 
a district called Macalisberg, in the 24th degree of S. latitude. 
Mr. Burke's rough Journal having been placed in our 
hands through the kindness of Lord Derby, we are sure 
we shall gratify our readers by some brief extracts from it, 
which will at least serve to show some of the difficulties to 
which travellers are exposed in that less than half civilized 
country. | 
In December, 1839, Mr. Burke sailed for the Cape, where 
he arrived in the middle of March, and after paying his. 
respects to Baron Ludwig, the eminent cultivator of rare 
plants and a distinguished patron of every branch of Natural 
History, he proceeded to Vyge-Kraal, the residence of the 
Rev. Mr. Fry, under whose direction and with whose assis- 
tance, preparations were to be made for the distant journey, 
and where a waggon was already awaiting him. MU 
On May the 21st, Mr. Burke observes, * every thing 19 - 
ready for our departure towards Uitenhage, whence We 
take our journey for the interior, and where I am fo be 
joined by Mr. Zeyher, and two more waggons. Jones (one 
of Lord Derby's under-gardeners, and accustomed to the 
charge of animals, who had gone out with Mr. Burke) will : 
go by sea to Algoa Bay, carrying our barter-goods, powder, — 
&e., and will bring back living animals, which have —— 
been collected there and at Uitenhage, and return to England 
with them and with others which are at Vyge-Kraal. On the | 
afternoon of this day, Punyer, an assistant, and myself left : 
