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his life an object which, as subsequent events 

 proved, would have been best fulfilled by his per- 

 manent residence in Chili, from whence he might 

 at leisure have communicated the subsequent fruits 

 of his inquiries. But the restless and enterprising 

 spirit of Doinbey urged him onwards, and labour 

 and sorrow were his appointed lot. During this 

 journey he discovered the majestic tree of the tribe 

 of Pines, 150 feet high, named by Lamarck Dom- 

 beya, in honour of his meritorious and unfortunate 

 countryman; and having added greatly to his collec- 

 tion of drawings, shells, and minerals, as well as 

 plants, while in Chili, and discovered a new and 

 most valuable mine of quicksilver and another of 

 gold, he revisited Lima to take his passage for 

 Europe. 



While he still remained at Lima, the labours 

 of arranging and packing his collections of natural 

 history, added to the fatigues he had already under- 

 gone, and the troubles he experienced from some 

 of the Spaniards in power, preyed upon his health 

 and spirits ; and under the idea that he might pos- 

 sibly never reach Europe, he wrote to his friend 

 Thouin to take the necessary precautions for the 

 safety of his treasures on their arrival in a Spanish 

 port. He survived, however, to undergo far greater 

 distresses than he had yet known. After narrowly 

 escaping shipwreck at Cape Horn, and being obliged 



