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many favours and kind attentions I have 
always received se you command my 
warmest gratitu 
ACCOUNT OF MR. DOUGLAS’ SECOND 
VISIT TO THE COLUMBIA; HIS EX- 
CURSIONS IN CALIFORNIA; AND HIS 
VISIT TO MOUNA ROA IN THE SAND- 
WICH ISLANDS; WITH PARTICULARS 
RESPECTING HIS DEATH. 
Productive as was the first mission of 
Mr. Douglas to the western shores of North 
America, the second was undertaken under 
far more favourable auspices. He had 
acquired knowledge of the most valuable 
kind—that gained by experience, and of- 
ten, as has been seen in the preceding 
part of the memoir, by dear-bought expe- 
rience :—he was well acquainted with the 
language and customs of the various tribes 
of people on the Columbia and its tributa- 
ries ;—and, in addition to his familiarity 
with the several branches of Natural His- 
tory, he had profited so much by the able 
instructions of Capt. Sabine, that he could 
not fail to make observations in other de- 
partments of Science, especially such as 
should bear upon magnetic and atmosphe- 
ric phenomena, and on the Geography of 
the countries he would visit. Hence it 
was that the Colonial Office, at the sug- 
gestion of Capt. Sabine, supplied him with 
an excellent set of instruments: and I may 
here remark, that the result of these in- 
vestigations, communicated to the Colonial 
Office from time to time, as well as to 
Capt. Sabine, has been duly appreciated 
by the latter gentleman, and will, at no 
distant period, be laid before the public. 
The expenses of this mission were, in 
. great part, to have been defrayed by the 
ca eis Society of London, of which 
Mr. Sabine was still Secretary; but when 
those changes took place in that Institution, 
the particulars of which are familiar to all 
who have felt an interest in the success of 
Horticultural Botany in this country, and 
in consequence of which Mr. fo ntham 
became the Honorary Secretary in the 
MR. DOUGLAS' SECOND VISIT TO THE COLUMBIA. 
room of Mr. Sabine, Mr. Douglas wrote 
the Columbia, resigning his appoint 
of Collector to the Society, and he y 
drew altogether from its service; send 
to it, however, at the same time, 
collections he had made up to that pe 
but declaring his intention, nevertheless, to. 
transmitall seeds and living plants hem 
procure, as a present to the Garden. Thi 
determination, which arose from some 
understanding, is deeply to be regre 
not only because we know, from our 
quaintance with Mr. Bentham’s che 
and feelings upon the subject, that 
gentleman would have exerted himself fo 
the uttermost to further Mr. Douglas’ suc 
: but because to. this circumst 
the whole of his Journals. 
ety, during the former expedition, 
were from time to time carefully desp 
was idi to communicate the re 
his investigations and labours: and 
tlie remnant of his collections, 
after his death, no Journal has 
save that of his Voyage from the | 
bia to the Sandwich Islands ane 
Ascent of Mouna Koa. 
All that I have to offer, theretort 
specting his excursions in the m 
Bay territories and in California, W 
reaped such a glorious harvest 
must be collected from his letters? 
friends ; and these almost exclusive 
what he sent to the writer of this 
to whom he appears to have 0| 
mind more confidentially, and to ha 
more full in point of matter, than to ? 
any other of his correspondents, $ 
whom have kindly permitted a pe 
their letters. The first I had the ha 
to receive from him was dated, ; 
River 
mm of bts 1890. ; 
How much do I feel ME to. 
your long and kind letter of Chris 
1829! I received it two months 
days after I had left my head-q! 
an extensive journey in the ‘ 
