SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES 



mountains, craters, basaltic causeways and caverns, faults 

 and dykes, etc. My fossils, which include a large col- 

 lection of the coral vegetation of Australia, were packed 

 up without examination. Since arriving among the 

 Feejees, I have taken hold of the corals, and figured 175 

 species, with the animals of most of them. Among 

 Crustacea I have made collections and drawings when 

 geology was not requiring my time. My drawings are 

 mostly confined to the smaller Crustacea, and in all prob- 

 ability very few will turn out described species. I count 

 up now 400 species, figured or painted, of which nearly 

 150 belong to the old class Entomostraca. In geology, 

 I shall take the liberty of disputing some of Darwin's 

 views (see voyage of Beagle) as to the rise of the Peruvian 

 coast, the structure of the Andes, and also other points 

 which I leave unmentioned, as I have dwelt long enough 

 on self. 



' We are bound from this place to the Sandwich 

 Islands, and we look with anxiety for our arrival there. 

 When the mail comes but once a year, the opening of 

 the letter-bag is a matter of great interest, and is an- 

 ticipated with strangely commingled feelings. There 

 are so 



Here, with this unfinished sentence, the pen of the 

 writer is dropped. Then comes, nearly four months 

 later, a postscript : 



" October Qth. We reached the Sandwich Islands nine 

 days since, after a tedious voyage of fifty days from the 

 Feejees. Ten days more and we should have eaten up 

 the last of our provisions. Everything was low and poor 

 enough. We had been on an allowance the whole of the 

 voyage. I am rejoiced to find Couthouy here in good 

 health. He is not wholly free of his complaint, yet is so 

 strong that a few days before our arrival he ascended the 

 summit of the highest mountain of Hawaii, 14,000 feet, 

 without feeling any inconvenience from it. We learn 

 now that we shall not be at home before spring of 1842. 

 Many make sorry faces about it, but the northwest coast 

 still remains to be visited, and that will occupy the whole 

 of next summer. Our stay among the Feejees was pro- 

 tracted to three months." 



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