THE 



CANADIAN 



MTURALIST AID GEOLOGIST. 



VoL.y. OCTOBER, 1860. No. 5. 



ARTICLE ^lAY.— Abridged Sketch of the Life of 3Ir. 

 David Douglas, Botanist, with a few details of his travels 

 and discoveries. 



(^Continued from last Number.) 



After the misfortune recorded in our last, Douglas pursued his 

 way to Fort Vancouver by the same route by which he had come, 

 botanizing still more sedulously than ever, in order to make up as far 

 as possible for his recent heavy loss. In October, he left the Colum- 

 bia, as it afterwards unfortunately proved, for the last time. A land 

 where his discoveries had furnished him frequently with the bright- 

 est moments of the purest joy, and where also his losses had caused 

 him days of the most poignant sorrow and regret. He arrived at 

 Waohoo on the 23rd December. On the 31st he was at Hawaii, 

 on which stand the great volcanic peaks. His account of the 

 ascent of these is most interesting and we angle from his journal 

 as much as our limits and the patience of readers may be supposed 

 to render admissible. 



After all preliminary preparations, and passing two days with 

 his party drenched with rain on the skirts of Mouna Kuah, we 

 find him on the 9th January 1834, recovering from the effects 

 of the weather, and partaking of a young wild bull, shot by a 

 person who had joined them. The weather on the following day 

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