130 Mr. Dana's Reply to Mr. Couthouy 1 s Vindication. 



friendly feeling that sprung up while abroad, still lingered about 

 me, and I couched my reclamation in as few words as possible — 

 simple and courteous, but decided. The same course I shall 

 still pursue in the remarks which follow ; a plain and concise 

 statement of facts will be sufficient I trust to set the subject at 

 rest. Mr. Couthouy's paraphrase of my charge — which, by the 

 way, merits a second reading, as a very explicit exposition of the 

 crime of plagiarism — evinces sufficiently that he himself will 

 appreciate the facts, thus stated, as fully as if expressed with vi- 

 tuperative language. 



The public have cause for regret that Mr. C. did not bring for- 

 ward at once the abstract of his journal sent home from Sydney, 

 which is said to contain the views in dispute ; as many words 

 might possibly have been saved, if the facts are as stated; and 

 it would have borne down with more force than all his dozen 

 pages of argument. But for some reason this was kept behind. 

 A few particulars respecting this abstract might be added here, but 

 are better reserved until some personal accusations are disposed of. 



Mr. Couthouy complains of unfairness in my not addressing 

 him before making the charge public, and dwells upon the inti- 

 macy between us at sea, in order to bring out in bolder colors 

 this "misused confidence." I acknowledge fully the "peculiar 

 intimacy," and remember well the "warm expressions of re- 

 gard" with which we parted when leaving the Sandwich Isl- 

 ands. I could bring farther evidence on this point if necessary, 

 but will only desire the reader, before perusing the following 

 remarks, to turn again to the last two pages of Mr. Couthouy's 

 vindication. The confidence was mutual, evinced equally by 

 each in endeavors to give aid in our several departments ; and Mr. 

 Couthouy never before, till his late Reply, accused me of failing 

 to return his kindness — of giving him three or four dozen spe- 

 cimens for his three or four hundred — a fact (if we double the 

 three or four dozen) it is true, but only so because Mr. C. was 

 not with us at the Feejees to receive the contributions made by 

 me to his departments, and left us for home at the Sandwich Isl- 

 ands before I had opportunity to return the kindness which he 

 was enabled to bestow by his arrival at that group so long before 

 they were reached by the squadron.* The acknowledged inti- 



* Mr. Couthouy was with the squadron only about one year and a half of the 

 four occupied in the cruise. 



