24 NUTTALL. 
friends even with the most savage children of the 
after every remedy had failed he composed him- 
self to die. He was found by an Indian, who 
placed him in a canoe and rowed him down the 
river to the region of the white man. He trav- 
eled in nearly every State of the Union; he ex- 
plored the great lakes and the upper branches of 
the Mississippi, and in 1810 ascended the Mis- 
souri as far as the Mandon villages. Washington 
Irving, in his ‘‘Astoria,’’ from notes furnished by 
Messrs. Hunt and Crooks of their journey to the 
Columbia River, describes Mr. Nuttall as follows: 
‘©1811, May 10th. The two naturalists, Mr. 
Nuttall and Mr. Bradbury, who had joined the 
Nuttall seems to have been devoted to his scien- 
tific pursuits exclusively. He wasa zealous bota- 
upon him in the boundless prairies, clad in the 
vernal and variegated robe of unknown flowers. 
Whenever the boats landed at meal times, or for 
any other temporary purpose, he would spring on 
shore and set out on a hunt for new specimens. 
Every plant or flower of a rare or unknown 
species was eagerly seized as a prize. Delighted 
with the treasures set out and spreading them- 
selves before him, he went groping and stumbling 
along the wilderness of sweets, forgetful of every- 
thing but his immediate pursuit, and had often 
to be sought after when the boats were about to 
