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helm], of whom I have spoken to you (and 

 who made a botanical journey in the south of 

 France and the Pyrenees two years ago), and 

 Mahir, who drove us, with whom I am very 

 intimate ; he is a medical student, and also 

 a very enthusiastic physicist. He gave me 

 private lessons in mathematics all winter, and 

 was a member of our philomathic meetings. 

 Braun had not set out alone either, and his 

 two traveling companions were also friends 

 of ours. One was Trettenbacher, a medical stu- 

 dent greatly given to sophisms and logic, but 

 allowing himself to be beaten in argument 

 with the utmost good nature, though always 

 believing himself in the right ; a thoroughly 

 good fellow with all that, and a great connois- 

 seur of antiquities. The other was a young 

 student, More, from the ci-devant department 

 of Mt. Tonnerre, who devotes himself en- 

 tirely to the natural sciences, and has chosen 

 the career of traveling naturalist. You can 

 easily imagine that this attracts me to him, 

 but as he is only a beginner I am, as it were, 

 his mentor. 



On the morning of our departure the 

 weather was magnificent. Driving briskly 

 along we had various surmises as to where 

 we should probably meet our traveling com- 



