68 THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS 



a very charming person. He was respected everywhere 

 in scientific circles, at once for his attainments and the 

 modesty with which he carried them. He was one of the 

 party who went to Iceland with von Troil. He had been 

 to India and back, as surgeon on board an East Indiaman. 

 It had been proposed to send Dr. Lind on Cook's third 

 voyage. He made it conditional on Banks also going 

 in company, " from the real regard I have for so able 

 and excellent a man." They had been somewhat un- 

 graciously treated in 1772, when both Lind and Banks 

 went to great trouble and expense in preparing for the 

 second expedition. The latter proposed to reimburse 

 Dr. Lind, who says (in a letter to Dr. Maskelyne) : 

 " He told me that he had a good estate ; his estate he 

 looked on as belonging to his friends as well as himself ; 

 that he held me as one of them, and begged me to com- 

 mand my share of it whenever I wanted it." 



