288 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 
Without delay, F. Has pe bi fi baggage, ship ea some pepe 
and cooking utensils, a rifle, and some books, in a ae des Press, 
along some pro video 3 and mars tor his» new w home This island was bye? 
wooded with gigantic trees. On the lower part of it, farthest remove 9 
the village, was an old, dilapidated log cabin, the former abode of some bir 
cho ney was gone, so that a ta 1] man wi 
ing on the outside of it could look ion wn inside upon the lov sit gre en pn 
the burrows of which wild rabbits popped forth at the app seca of m “ Ai 
of the roof was gone, and the door carried off. There was plenty of ga 
however, ia wild turkeys. ace of ae had reat in the island as . a 
o 
ba] 
Ry 
5 
oo 
° 
—, 
- 
img 
oO 
ie) 
orm 0 
moved from the crowd, the hum and ete of men, his pastimes oni 
alternately in trapping, hunting, reading, “seme and ‘meditati ing, and on mi P 
wad sunny days in paddling up a placid arm of the r river, then turning ea 
lean idly back in his canoe, thus oating pedal again. cst pied in this way ¥. 
appy as ever mortal man, similarly situated, can claim to be. His ah oe 
content would at times culmin ate into feelin ngs of thankfulness, bia” vn 
found by: in words akin to the soliloquy of Faust at his forest cave: pi 
g 
sublim hou unto me gavy’st ev ry pe! ° — for 
Only once he met on the island with a | heigl, with its = : 
coming to see him. How long F, would hay continued to live here is h ee 
say, if the great spring rise in the Miscou dea which began to overflow rr t 
of the island, had not taken pl: hen its waters o within a short dis 
tance of his cabin he ought ’twas time to leayv , and entrusting himse rf 
age to his frail canoe, was hurried alon o mean speed the ea 
tate rush of the foaming and rapidly swelling stream. Dodging floating 
and ken ledges of ice, he Xpected every Ds be Sead ae by the ait 
waves caused by a stiff b blowing up stre and his tiny pei 
dst eddies and me sia hs Lex pie boy ‘miles elon the island, wé 
however, the mos lous of the ven 
F. sailed for aon on a vis he e. At Koenigsberg he 
oH me. rd ee 
quainted with Ernst Meyer, Professor of Botany at-the University, wo Bs 
intimated to him that a fe diato number of sets of dried specimens of pla 
for the herbarium m might be sed of ata peetcsie price, and advi ane le 
on ae return to “a oe piceee States to collect and send them on, for sale, 
tot i pee ‘4 ess. Iect 
return te America and to St. Lonis, F. assiduously began to bine ri 
plants nad took the different species to Dr. En elmann, who furnish hicago 
with their scientific names. Different parts of the country, between —_ n- 
and New O i m ‘a mt ; 
nis F. with a letter of seopnaadettation from the Seer ae of War, by ae 
of which he got free transportation for himself, his collensions and Inggaee 
arrived at Santa Fe late in the fall of the year, when vegetation ee fol- 
interesting part of his route was already dried up. Collec ecting during the f to 
lowing spring and summer, he was, to his great sorrow, obliged to 
