Brazilian coast. I believe it is pretty cer- 
tain we shall spend a month on the Sand- 
. wich Islands, where something may, I trust, 
.. be done, both in Botany and Zoology. 
“ I regret to hear that you are not likely 
to be in England this autumn ; for to Scot- 
land I cannot go, which obliges me, most 
reluctantly, to sail without seeing you. In 
a few days I shall write to you my, for the 
present, last, letter. I had almost forgot- 
ten to say, that I have put the last impres- 
sion of your map through my hands. It 
is very fine, and will surely please you. 
The route of Franklin, Richardson, and 
Drummond is marked in RED, Parry's in 
BLUE, and mine in YELLOW. I must have 
the latter tint changed to green, for yellow 
is a most sickly hue for a culler of weeds.” 
45 
" 
London, Oct. 27th, 1829. 
* I received, in due course, the letter you 
Were so kind as to address me at Green- 
Wich, and am delighted. to know that Dr. 
Mertens has promised to send. you part of 
his plants, which must be a great acquisi- 
tion. I cannot tell you how pleased I am 
to have seen the first Part of your Flora 
Boreali- Americana before sailing, and that 
I am enabled to take it with me to Ameri- 
ca. The map is good, and will increase 
the interest of the book; had it been printed 
on thinner paper, I think, however, it would 
have been still better. The plates are truly 
beautiful; but I see you have not given a 
figure of Peonia (P. Brownit). The type 
15 also good, and the notices and habitats 
full—a point of great importance. I have 
n, and still am, deeply engaged, and 
would continue so, if I had another season 
to remain here, for I have much to learn, 
_ 1o do, and to think, as to my anticipated 
Journey. I know it will give you satisfac- 
tion to hear that every facility in the way 
of instruments for such an expedition has 
n granted me in the handsomest manner 
by the Colonial Office. And further still 
. Hay, the Under Secretary, sent to 
. flquire if any thing had been forgotten, 
E^ and beggéd me to say unhesitatingly if 
! this were the case. The same Office also 
. Pays the principal part of my expenses, 
- VOL. II. e 
V ain aa AAi 
. MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. DAVID DOUGLAS. 
and will give me a compensation for my 
charts, and for the information I may bring 
home on my return. This is all as it ought 
to be—I mean the latter part of the agree- 
ment; if I had a good salary, I might fold 
my hands and become lazy, therefore I can 
feel no objection to being paid according 
to my labour. I hope, ere the whole of 
the Flora is printed, to be able to supply 
you with many and striking novelties. I 
am sensible of the great advantage I derive 
from my former experience of travelling in 
the country, of hunting, collecting, &c.; 
and certainly if I find the Indian tribes as 
quiet as when I left them, much good may 
be effected. Of this, however, I feel con- 
siderably afraid, in consequence of the de- 
struction of the Hudson Bay Company's 
hip's crew, and the murder of some par- 
ties of Americans, by which I am warned 
to walk with great caution, and more re- 
servedly than before. If I find the natives 
hostile to the * Man of Grass" (the name 
by which Mr. Douglas was generally known 
among them), I must shift my quarters to 
some other part of the country. I shall 
take the list of my Canadian plants to-day 
to Treuttel and Würtz's for you, and am 
also sending to Dr. Richardson a notice of 
the Zoology of North- West America, to be 
published in the last volume of his Fauna. 
I am hourly expecting the summons to 
sail, and am not aware that we shall touch 
at any place, except the Sandwich Islarids, 
where it is intended to make a short stay. 
By every opportunity, it will be my sincere 
pleasure to write to you, and tell you of 
my progress and plans; and I cannot ex- 
press the delight which I always feel in 
hearing from you, more especially when I 
am separated from you by seas and distant 
lands, and yet busily employed in gather- 
ing and sending you the plants of those 
regions. I therefore entreat that, if it be 
only a few lines, you will do me the favour 
to write, or cause your sons to do so. It 
is not likely my time will permit me to 
address you again before sailing,—let me 
therefore repeat once more how sincerely 
I feel myself indebted to you, not for much, 
but for all that I possess; and the 
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