IN CALIFORNIA 19 



been his companion, still guarded a bundle which 

 his master had left upon the ground near by. 



In that classic narrative of the sea, "Two Years 

 Before the Mast," Richard Henry Dana has more 

 or less to say about the California coast as he went 

 up and down in the little brig Pilgrim, gather- 

 ing hides. But his interest was not in plant life, 

 and we search in vain for any light upon that sub- 

 ject in his books. We do, however, get an interest- 

 ing little picture of one of the most famous of 

 American botanical explorers, Thomas Nuttall. 

 Nuttall was a Yorkshireman, who about the year 

 1810, emigrated to the Uniied States. He traveled 

 very extensively in this country, and in 1836 ar- 

 rived in California, homeward bound from Oregon. 

 Securing a passage on the Dana hide-drogher, he 

 made stops at Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Pedro 

 and San Diego. It was at the last port that Dana 

 came in contact with him, when both were preparing 

 to sail for Boston on another ship. Nuttall, it 

 seems, had been a professor at Harvard when Dana 

 was a student there, and the latter 's account of 

 their re-meeting in California is rather amusing. 

 "I had left him," Dana writes, "quietly sitting in 

 the chair of botany and ornithology in Harvard 

 University, and the next I saw of him he was stroll- 



