140 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Magellan, with the wonderfully sym- 

 metrical Melinioya, white as purest 

 marble to the summit, a Fusiyama of 

 the south ] and ; again, to the lava cave 

 in the Galapagos, which made a stately 

 banquet hall, after the red and orange- 

 coloured iguanas who generally used it 

 had been either ousted or " collected. 77 

 Agassiz travelled overland through Chili 

 from Talcahuana to Santiago. His state 

 of health was now always obtruding it- 

 self. For a long time he had used the 

 remedy of the very strong and the very 

 weak, and had believed by ignoring his 

 troubles to persuade them out of exist- 

 ence. But now they could no longer 

 be ignored. And when the vessel 

 reached San Francisco, Agassiz rested 

 for a month in California without an 

 attempt to see the Great Trees, and then 

 submitted to be brought home across 

 the Eocky Mountains without seeking 

 for so much as a glacial scratch by the 

 way two little facts which speak whole 

 chapters. 



