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CHAPTER IX. 



ITER DALECARLIUM 1 THE FAIR FLOWER OF FALUN. 



Up a thousand feet, Tom, 



Round the lion's head, 

 Find soft stones to leeward 



And make up our bed. 

 Eat our bread and bacon, 



Smoke the pipe of peace, 

 And, ere we be drowsy, 



Give our boots a grease. 

 Homer's heroes did so, 



Why not such as we ? 

 What are sheets and servants ? 



Superfluity. KINGSLEY. 



IT took some time to organise the expedition, which was 

 no single-handed affair like the Lapland journey. This 

 was a caravan of naturalists, to be furnished with due 

 scientific and all other requirements for the two young 

 barons, Reuterholm's sons, could not be expected to 

 travel without a certain amount of luxury. But to take 

 servants and equipage were to imperil the objects of the 

 journey ; and Linnaeus's fascinating tongue soon won 

 over barons and all to trust to chance for their creature 



1 The adjective Dalecarlian is better Latinised Dalecarlicus, -a, 

 -um ; but as Linnaeus wrote of his journey as Iter Dalecarlium, I 

 have adopted his title. In Flora Dalecarlica the same. Linnaeus wrote 

 it Flora Dalecarlia. Jackson also follows Linnaeus in this. 



