LOUIS AGASSIZ 117 



from the pages of the joint journal kept 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Agassiz A Journey 

 in Brazil. Such extraordinary kindness 

 and goodness had never pursued any- 

 body before. From the emperor who, 

 on the very battlefield, ordered collec- 

 tions made of the fishes in the southern 

 rivers along which his army marched, 

 down to the humblest Indian who took 

 an interest in the extraordinary tastes of 

 his white visitors, the tale of universal 

 good will is the same. 



Agassiz thankfully compares all this 

 with the difficulties encountered some 

 forty years before by his old teacher 

 Martius and with those braved by the 

 still earlier expedition of Humboldt. 

 Re-reading Humboldt' s Narrative on the 

 spot, he says, "I could not but con- 

 trast the cordial liberality which 

 smoothed every difficulty in my path 

 with the dangers, obstacles, and suffer- 

 ing which beset his." Off Santarem, 

 where the dark waters of the Tapajoz 



