CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 1811—1832. 



BOYHOOD. 



Birth, parentage, and home — Youghal — Ballitore — Schoolboy letters on Botany, 

 Politics, &c. — Visit to London — First letter to Sir Win. Hooker — Botanical 

 letters to Mr. Fennell — Death of his mother — Visit to Scotland — Letter to Sir 

 Wm. Hooker. Pages 1—30 



CHAPTER II. 1832—1835. 



CONTINUATION OF HOME LIFE. 



Piemoval to Plassey — Botanical pursuits — Story of J. F. — Kilkee — Desire for 

 foreign travel — Marriage of his sister — Death of his father — Unsettlement — 

 Prospect of visiting Cape of Good Hope — London — R. Brown — N. B. Ward — 

 Letter from Portsmouth. ..... . Pages 31 — 52 



CHAPTER III. 1835—1836. 



VOYAGE. SIX MONTHS AT CAPETOWN. 



Porpoises — Swallows — Cowper — Anecdote of a passenger — Tropical rain — Shark — 

 Reflections — Southern cross — Pigeon — Albatross — Off Table Bay — Landing — 

 First picking of plants — Excursion to Devil's Mountain — Ludwigsburg — 

 Caffre war — Illness of his brother — Change of prospects — Ferns, J uncus, &c. 

 — Secretary bird — Reflections in letters to Mrs. L. — Structure of Algse- 

 Hemitelia fern — Letter to Party embark for England. Pages 53 — 77 



CHAPTER IV. 1836-1839. 



SECOND RESIDENCE AT CAPETOWN. 



Death of his brother — Return to Capetown — Captain L. of ship Wellington — 

 Reflections on his African home — Loneliness — Amusements — Microscope — 

 Tuberose — Dislike of flattery — Remarks on Cape produce, &c. — Hesperanihse 

 — Purchase of house — Accession of Queen Victoria — Begins " Genera of 

 South African Plants" — Coleridge — Live stock — Botany — Mr. Griffith — 

 "Genera " — Cultivation of Disa Grandiflora — Death of his nephew — Trip to 

 the Paarl — Ostrich — His old home — Mr. Backhouse — Health fails — Leave of 

 absence Pages 78—107 



