brother? Ah, the hand was the hand of Esau, but LITTLE 

 when he spoke, it was the same, gentle, loving voice JOURNEYS 

 the voice of my brother." 



A few weeks at Rome and Alexander grew restless 

 for work. He had made great plans about publishing 

 the record of his travels. This work was to outstrip 

 anything in book-making that the world had ever seen, 

 dealing 'with similar subjects. The Jwriting was done 

 on ship-board, by camp-fires, and in the forest and 

 jungle, but now it had all to be gone over and revised 

 and much of it translated into French, for the original 

 notes were sometimes in English and sometimes in 

 German. 



Only in Paris could the work of book-making be done 

 that would fill Humboldt's ideals. In Paris were 

 printers, engravers, artists, binders Paris was then 

 the artistic center of the world, as it is today. 

 The result of this first great scientific voyage of dis- 

 covery was written out in a work of seventeen volumes. 

 It was entitled, "The Travels of Humboldt and Bon- 

 pland in the Interior of America." Humboldt wrote 

 the book, but he wanted his friend to have half the 

 credit. This superb set of books, containing many en- 

 gravings, was issued under Humboldt's supervision 

 and almost entirely at his own expense. It was di- 

 vided into five general parts : Geography and the Dis- 

 tribution of Plants; Zoology and Comparative Anat- 

 omy ; Political Essays and Description of Peoples and 

 Institutions in the Kingdom of New Spain; Astrono- 

 my and Magnetism ; Equinoctial Vegetation. 



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