IC >32 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"1772, March 22c]" (Pall. iv. 134), Falk having commenced his return to St. Petersburg, and 

 Georgi remaining behind at lrkutzk, Pallas continuing his journey crossed Lake Baical on the ice on 

 the ""23d," and "April 6th " reached Kiakta. Leaving on the " 9th," he returned down the Selenga 

 as far as Oudinsk, and on the " 27th " proceeded Eastward, meeting with Lycopodium rupeslris,3.nd 

 reached the waters of the Ingoda tributary of the Amour "May 9th." He now entered Daouria, 

 meeting with Mvosot/s rupestris, M. pectinata, Cotyledon malacophyllum, Astragalus leptophyllus, 

 A. dalguricus, A. mnrkatus, Phaca salsula, I'edicularis flava, Spiraea thalictroides, Phlox Siierica, 

 SiT'itlaria alpina, Iris vcnlrkosa, and turning back at Tchindantourouk, left Daouria "June 12th." 

 Continuing Westward, on the " 20th '' he reached Selenginsk, and on the " 25th " Kiakta, observing 

 on the Upper Selenga Hypecoum ereclum, Aucliusa saxatilis, Convolvulus ritpcsti is, Astragalus poly- 

 p/ivl/us, A. oxYp/iv/lus, A. laguraidi-s, A. {Oxytropis) ampullatus, Artemisia pectinata, Pedicularis 

 striata, and returning reached Lake Baical "July 7th." From lrkutzk on the "22(1 "he continued 

 Westward, and " Aug. 1st " reached Krasnoyarsk. Leaving on the " 19th " for the Upper Yenisei, he 

 reached the waters of the Abakan " Sept 5th," and on the " 6th " the frontier of Mongolia at Tasch- 

 typkaja Derevna: returning, meeting with Scdun: populifotium,he reached Krasnoiarsk on the "23d." 



Sokolof, left behind in 1 )aouria ( Pall. tray. iv. 607), meeting with Phyllanthus ramiflorus, Pcdiculai is 

 myriophvlla, P. spicata, Primula nivalis, Gah-ga Daurica, and returning, joined Pallas at Krasnoiarsk. 



" In this year" (Nicol.), Third partition of Poland. 



" In this year " (Lindl. med. 408), Cinchona forests discovered by Mutis around the city of Santa 

 F6 de Bogota, the attention of Government directed to the fact, and specimens sent to Linnaeus. — 

 He continued to reside there and established a Botanical garden, published memoirs "in 1784" and 

 " 1792," and died "in 1809" (Spreng.). 



"The same year" (encyclop. meth., and Holmes), severe earthquake in Guatimala : destroying 

 the city of that name, with "eight thousand families." 



" Nov. 2d " (rec. Bost, and Holmes), on motion of Samuel Adams in town meeting at Boston, a 

 committee of twenty-one citizens appointed : To correspond with their brethren in the province, state 

 their grievances, and publish an account of their proceedings. — This committee of Correspondence 

 proved "the basis of the subsequent union of the colonies." 



"In this year" (Spreng ), Sparmann in Austral Africa on the arrival of Cook — on his Second 

 voyage, now accompanied by Forxtcr. 



"In this year" (D'avezac in rec. voy. et mem. iv), in the Pacific, a low island called by the 

 natives Topatuetota, in " Lat. 17 15' Long. 236° 2'," discovered by the captain of the Spanish frigate 

 Aguila; also a low island called by the natives Eruo, in "Lat. 1 7° 30' Long. 234 15'." — The first- 

 named island was visited by Cook in the following year and called by him Resolution. 



"In this year = beginning of the years an-yei " (iransl. Klapr. 239), Rinsifee, or Fajasi Sivei 

 holding an interview with a Japanese of Matsmaye, from whom he learned many particulars respect- 

 ing the Ainos of Ycso — His work, containing besides an account of Corea and the Loo Choo Islands 

 and entitled San-kokf-tsou-ran-to-sets, was published in " 1785," and has been translated by Klaproth 

 into French (Orient, transl. lond., and Siebold eluc. Yries p. 4). 



The Ainos of Yeso are described in the San-kokf as unacquainted with writing, agriculture, the 

 use of money, and the art of procuring iron and copper from their mines ; do not capture whales, 

 and have an account of a sea-monster called "okime" large enough to swallow a whale (the kraken 

 of the Norwegians) ; have no knowledge of chronology, social laws, nor of the use of wealth, but 

 think only of eating and sleeping with ihcir wives, arc in the same condition as people were at the 

 beginning of the world, before thousands of years with religion and commerce gradually brought on 

 civilization: they do not voluntarily dwell with Japanese; all have a healthy aspect ; dip new-born 

 infants in the sea ; the men are occupied in hunting and fishing, and in general have great bodily 

 strength, the women cutting firewood and doing all the work of the household ; no one knows pre- 

 cisely his own age; they make coarse cloth of fibrous plants and bark of trees, but embroider with 

 thread elegantly ; wear no covering on the head, and go barefoot even in frost and snow ; intermarry 

 with their nearest relations, to keep the family distinct, and those possessing the means marry four 

 to eight wives, each one of whom has a separate house ; conceal in the mountains and set a high 

 value on sword-hilts and other antiqujties inherited from their ancestors ; place their dead in a large 

 chest together with the utensils used by the deceased, and for special honour erect a post five feet 

 high and suspend his sabre, but never wear signs of mourning; their houses have but a single apart- 

 ment, in which the whole family sleep and eat together, there being no distinction of master and ser- 

 vant ; a cage containing an owl 'Strixflammea) is often alongside, for the sake of feathers for their 

 arrows; they have an' instrument of iron called " kouwasaki," or " kw.isaki," consisting of a ring 

 having two branches in the form of a swallow's tail and a little bell suspended by a short chain from 

 each branch, regarded as sacred, used when making prayers and sacrifices for recovery from illness, 

 and in general kept concealed in the ground ; the people are very stupid, though maintaining an 



