14 BIOGEAPHY. 



family, Waterton went to superintend them, and in the 

 interval before starting, made the personal acquaintance 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, who at once appreciated the powers 

 which the young traveller was afterwards to develop. 

 He gave Waterton a piece of most excellent advice, 

 namely, to come home for a time at least once in three 

 years. 



He continued to administer the estates for eight years, 

 when, as both his father and uncle, the proprietors of the 

 estates, were dead, he handed over the property to those 

 who had a right to it, and thence began his world-famed 

 Wanderings, the account of which will be given exactly 

 as he wrote it ; without the change or omission of a 

 syllable, or the addition of a note. 



