94 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



He spent two months of the summer of 1741 ex- 

 ploring these two islands. His mile-reckoning and the 

 quality of the inns are very briefly pointed out in his 

 diary, which he gives to his fatherland and the public. 

 He was accompanied by six bachelors P. Adlerheim, 

 J. Morseus (his brother-in-law), H. J. Gahn, G. Dubois, 

 F. Ziervogel, and S. Wendt, or Waidt, a young student. 

 Andrew Celsius seems to have fallen in with the party 

 at Kalmar. Linngeus apparently had all the trouble of 

 i personally conducting' the party; this time we are 

 not told of any special distribution of the duties of 

 travel : the right to grumble, if quarters or weather 

 were bad, or horses not forthcoming, seems to have 

 been reserved by each individual. That the journey was 

 arduous, at any rate to the director, may be inferred 

 from the fact that LinnaBus preferred to take his future 

 journeys alone to being encumbered by travelling-com- 

 panions. He works on the same system as in Dalarne, 

 but now he is geographus, physicus, secretarius, miner- 

 alogus, botanicus, zoologus, oeconomus, domesticus, 

 stall-meister, quartermaster, adjutant, &c., all in one. 

 The writing too is all done by himself. This tour has 

 never yet been printed in English, though there are two 

 German translations of it. Space permits me only to 

 summarise what is really an excellent handbook to the 

 islands. 



'May 15, 1741. We left Stockholm, in the most 

 agreeable springtime, at eleven in the forenoon. The 

 sun shone warm, the air was cool. We took our way 



