8 TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



to Brazil was confided, — had the goodness immedi- 

 ately to introduce them to the learned gentlemen 

 selected by the Austrian government, who were to 

 be their fellow travellers. Professor Mikan, from 

 Prague, was appointed for the departments of 

 botany and entomology ; Mr. Pohl, M. D., for 

 mineralogy and botany ; Mr. Natterer, assistant in 

 the Imperial Museum of Natural History, for zoo- 

 logy ; Mr. Th. Ender, to be landscape painter ; Mr. 

 Buchberger, botanical painter ; and M. H. Schott, 

 son of the worthy superintendent of the University 

 Garden, to be gardener ; the two last were assigned 

 as assistants to professor Mikan : there were be- 

 sides with the company a huntsman and a working 

 miner. 



Rejoiced at the acquaintance with our future 

 companions, we longed for orders to set out to- 

 gether for Triest. But as several circumstances 

 left it doubtful when the two Austrian frigates 

 would sail, we employed the time that we had re- 

 maining, partly in further preparations for the 

 voyage, especially in procuring maps and other 

 things which could not be purchased in the New 

 World, or only at a very great expence, and partly 

 in visiting the learned men residing in the capital. 

 Among these were the venerable Baron Von 

 Jacquin, the Nestor of German botanists (since 

 unfortunately dead), who had himself passed many 

 years in the West India islands, and on the Terra 

 Firma, with such gieat advantage to science, and 



