LIFE OF KALM. IX 



given orders to his Ministers at the French, Spanish, and 

 English Courts, as well as those at the United Provinces 

 in Holland, to obtain for me the Passports of these 

 Powers, I commenced on 16th October [New Style, 

 which is everywhere used in this preface] the voyage 

 from Upsala down to Gotheborg. 



" I had chosen as my assistant the Horticulturist 

 (Tragardsmastaren) Lars Jungstrdm, who was quite at 

 home in the science of Horticulture and the cultivation 

 of plants, adroit in delineating all sorts of things by 

 mechanical drawing, indefatigable on journeys, and in 

 the highest degree trustworthy. We remained at Gothe- 

 borg on account of a continuous adverse wind to the nth 

 December, when we sailed from thence, but being driven 

 by a fearful storm we were obliged to seek Norway. 

 Here we remained till the 8th February, 1748, when we 

 sailed from thence to England, and arrived at London 

 the 17th of the same month. For want of a vessel to 

 cross to America we were obliged to remain in England 

 till the 5th August, when we went on board at Gravesend, 

 and on the nth of the same month we lost sight of 



England " 



" [On the return Voyage] 1751. 



" After a bad voyage, unusual storms, and being often 

 in peril of our lives, on the 23rd March we caught sight 

 of England. On the 27th of the same month our ship 



