124 BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 



faithful to their agricultural calling. After giving up 

 the farming of the Menzendorf demesne they had come 

 to Berlin, whither all the brothers with the exception 

 of William had betaken themselves, and the two soon 

 succeeded in obtaining suitable positions on East 

 Prussian estates. 



Frederick had at a very early age gone from Ltibeck 

 to sea. and had for some years made a number of 

 long voyages in Liibeck sailing-ships. This had indeed 

 somewhat cooled his originally invincible inclination for 

 seafaring, and he wrote me one day that he would 

 like to learn something. I bade him therefore come 

 to Berlin, to prepare him by private instruction for 

 attending a naval school. He devoted himself to his 

 studies with great eagerness and success, and soon 



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showed great interest in my own aims and experiments. 

 The new mental life finally interested him in such a 

 degree that the inclination for a sailor's life, whose 

 seamy side he had got well to know, was incapable of 

 withstanding the new impressions. Add to this, that the 

 total change in dress, living, and climate, had brought 

 on rheumatic sufferings, which he only slowly got the 

 better of. Henceforth he assisted me in my technical 

 work, and was strenuously bent on filling the great gaps 

 which the seaman's life had made in his knowledge. 

 The next in order, brother Charles, had, like 

 Frederick, spent the first years after the death of the 

 parents with uncle Deichmann in Liibeck, and had then 

 completed his schooling in Berlin. There he early 

 took part in my work, and became my faithful ever 



