only misstated actual facts, but most unwarrantably misrepresented tbe 

 language of my defence, in order as I have just right to infer, to give 

 greater force to his assertions, and has also brought several new issues be- 

 fore the public, besides repeatedly, either by direct charge or by implica- 

 tion, impugning my honor and veracity, I feel constrained by a regard for 

 these, which are as dear to me as Mr. Dana's are to him, reluctantly to . 

 intrude again upon your pages in a matter now strictly personal between us. 



In doing this I shall be as brief as consistent with a clear presentation 

 of the facts, and avoid any thing like the " vituperative language," which 

 Mr. Dana by insinuation intimates I have been guilty of. 



I will proceed therefore to review Mr. D.'s statements in the order of 

 their appearance, at least such of them as require any notice at this time. 

 On p. 130 he remarks, " The public have cause for regret that Mr. C. did 

 not bring forward at once the abstract of his journal sent home from Syd- 

 ney, 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." 



The object of Mr. D. in this plausible sentence is too obvious to require 

 comment, but it is based wholly upon a gratuitous assumption of the na- 

 ture of the documents in question. There never was any ' abstract' of my 

 journal sent home from Sydney, nor have I ever intimated that such was 

 the case; consequently, however the public may regret it, no such ' ab- 

 stract' could have been brought forward. My statement, p. 380, Vol. xlv, 

 Jour., is as follows. " I transmitted by sure hand, to some friends in Bos- 

 ton, duplicate minutes of the most important of my observations from the 

 time of our leaving the United States, to our arrival at Upolu, in the Sa- 

 moan group." Even had these ' minutes' been a connected ' abstract,' it 

 is obvious, from the period through which they extend, that it would be 

 impossible to present them to the public through the pages of any Jour- 

 nal. But the truth is, they are scattered in disjointed fragments through 

 some 1400 pages of MSS , of which nine tenths are records of strictly per- 

 sonal views and feelings, intended only for the eyes of those nearest and 

 dearest to me. Such abstract as could be made, had in fact already been 

 'brought forward,' in the very article which has given rise to this discus- 

 sion ; and it will be in evidence of its authenticity that I shall submit to the 

 Association the documents from which it was compiled. I know not in 

 what way I could have acted more fairly and unreservedly than I have 

 done in this matter. 



On same page (130) he continues, "Mr. Couthouy complains of un- 

 fairness in my not addressing him before making the charge public, and 

 dwells upon the intimacy between us at sea, in order to bring out in bold- 

 er colors, this ' misused confidence.'" I unqualifiedly deny this intention. 

 I have in no part of my reply, charged Mr. D. with having " misused con- 

 fidence" in the matter at issue, ^gain, p. 135, " My readers are proba- 

 bly satisfied that I have not ' misused confidence.' " Allow me to repeat 

 the remark on pp. 387-388, Vol. xlv, in my reply, which is thus misappli- 

 ed. " I may hereafter take occasion to show that he (Mr. D.) has avail- 

 ed himself of them (my notes) in a manner that leaves him, to say the 

 least, equally open with myself to the charge of having misused confi- 



