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feelings will subside, and then, and only then, would 

 it be safe and prudent for you to return". 



Before any of this advice could reach him, Maury 

 made his decision as to the course he thought would be 

 best for him to pursue. This was to go to Mexico and 

 take service under Maximilian. Even before leaving 

 England, he had considered this as a possible eventuality, 

 and had written to his friend Jansen about the possibili- 

 ties of a colonization scheme in Mexico. Furthermore, 

 this item in his diary, written while at sea on his way to 

 the West Indies, shows that the plan was then in his 

 mind: ''Secession has failed, I fear, and noble old 

 Virginia is about to pass suh jugum, all owing to the 

 President who, not being a statesman himself or a judge 

 of one to call statesmen around him, has sacrificed our 

 sons, our fortunes, and country. At least, so I fear. 

 Where I am bound events will determine. I follow the 

 fortunes of Virginia. If she succumbs, I shall expatriate 

 myself, I think. Events alone will decide my course. 

 Hey ho!" Before his arrival in Cuba, he had made up 

 his mind. In a letter to Dr. Tremlett, written off San 

 Domingo, he declared that he expected to go to Mexico 

 to arrange for emigration from Virginia and other 

 Southern states. ''If Max. is wise", he continued, "and 

 will encourage my plans I can assist mightily to make 

 firm the foundations of his dynasty." 



It was natural that Maury's thoughts should have 

 turned to Maximilian. Before the war, he had sent to 

 the Archduke, then Commander in Chief of the Imperial 

 Royal Austrian Marine, a complete set of his "Sailing 

 Directions"; and it was through Maximilian's hands 

 that the Austrian gold medal of arts and sciences was 

 conferred on him. Two years later (June 6, 1860) he 



