CHAPTER III 



VISIT TO ICELAND. COOK'S SECOND 

 AND THIRD VOYAGES 



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preparations which Banks had made for a 

 second voyage to the South Seas were not 

 destined to be entirely in vain. 



A Swedish clergyman was in England on a 

 travelling tour, Uno von Troil by name. He was inter- 

 ested in Scandinavian antiquities, and later came into 

 some eminence as Archbishop of Upsala. Having made 

 acquaintance with Banks, it was proposed that they visit 

 Iceland in company. The project was immediately 

 adopted. Measures were taken for its organization in 

 that profuse style in which Banks thought proper to 

 undertake a scientific excursion. A ship was chartered, 

 at a cost of 100 per month, and set sail on July 12, 1772, 

 with a company of forty persons. Banks's guests included 

 the inseparable Solander ; Dr. von Troil ; James Lind, 

 a rising young physician of Edinburgh, who was, besides, 

 an astronomer ; J. F. Miller, artist and engraver ; and 

 Lieutenant Gore, who had been with him in the Endeavour. 

 The party landed for two days in the Isle of Wight 

 (which von Troil calls a little paradise), proceeded to 

 Plymouth, and then made for the Western Islands of 

 Scotland. They were lying in the Sound of Mull early one 

 morning, near the seat of a Mr. Maclean, of Drumnen, 

 who, upon the accidental acquaintance, invited Mr. Banks 

 and his friends to breakfast. There was another English 

 gentleman, a Mr. Leach, present at the table, who 

 mentioned in course of conversation that there was an 



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