CHARLES THEODORE MOHR. VII 



Returning to Paramaribo towards the end of September, 

 and not regaining his strength, he concluded to return to 

 Europe. 



Accordingly in November, 1846, after a seven months' stay 

 in Surinam, he took passage on the schooner Polaris for Rot- 

 terdam, which was reached in March following. In May, 

 1847, he accepted a position as chemist in the manufacturing 

 establishment of the firm of Hochstetter & Schickard, in Brunn, 

 Austria. In this prosperous business he remained till the revo- 

 lution of 1848 brought it to a close. 



At the instigation of his elder brother, who had decided to 

 emigrate to North America, he embarked in August, 1848, on 

 the ship Spartan for New York, from which place he went first 

 to Philadelphia, and then to Cincinnati, where he found em- 

 ployment with a German manufacturer of chemicals. 



He soon made acquaintances among the educated people of 

 the city, and in March, 1849, in company with about fifty young 

 men, he left Cincinnati to seek his fortune in California. At 

 Fort Laramie it became evident that further progress was im- 

 possible with the amount of baggage which they had, and in 

 consequence all articles which were not absolutely needed 

 were left behind, and the party was divided up into groups of 

 six to twelve, and the journey continued. At Fort Hall, on the 

 upper waters of the Lewis fork of Snake river, the party was 

 compelled to abandon their wagons and to proceed with pack 

 mules, and as the number of these was limited many had to go 

 on foot. Here Mohr was obliged to leave his well filled herbar- 

 ium and all his books. On the 10th of August they reached a 

 settlement in the Sacramento Valley, the first since leaving the 

 borders of Missouri 110 days before. Here Mohr remained en- 

 gaged in placer mining, till protracted illness, brought on by 

 heat and exposure, decided him to give up this mode of life 

 and return to the East. 



Having disposed of his mining interests, in company with an 

 English comrade, he left the mines about the beginning of 

 September, 1850, descended the river from Marysville to San 

 Francisco, and went thence by steamer to Panama. In Pana- 

 ma he remained for a time in the hopes of recovering has 

 strength more fully before undertaking to cross the isthmus ; 

 but he had the misfortune to have all his baggage, including his 

 collection of plants and minerals, stolen from him, and to 

 crown all, was attacked by fever. On the steamer from Chag- 

 res to New Orleans, he suffered a relapse of fever, which kept 

 him prostrated till New Orleans was reached, and his recovery 

 there was in the main due to the tender care of his countryman 

 and companion, Duke Paul, of Wurttemburg. From New Or- 



