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victims of the selfish schemes of white adventurers. He was much 

 moved by the sad havoc wrought by the Spaniards in the Marianne 

 Islands, and repeated the story of persecution and cruelty accompany- 

 ing the "reduction" of the natives as related by the Spaniards 

 themselves. a 



From the statement published by Kotzebue that the natives of Guam 

 had been exterminated by the Spaniards a wrong impression has gone 

 abroad. The facts are presented under the head of "The modern 

 inhabitants," below/ 



The plants collected by the Romanzoff expedition were deposited in 

 the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Duplicates were 

 sent to the Hooker Herbarium, at Kew, England, and to the Univer- 

 sity of Kiel, Germany. A number of the plants were described by 

 Chamisso and Schlechtendal in the journal Linntea, the series beginning 

 with the first paper of the first volume.^ In the introduction to this 

 paper, Chamisso, in speaking of Eschscholtz, says, "Intimam insti- 

 tuimus amicitiam nunquam obnubilandam, communiaque semper 

 habuimus studia, labores, fructus;" and in his Tagebuch he describes 

 him as a young doctor from Dorpat, a naturalist and entomologist, shy 

 and retiring by nature, but true and noble as gold. Such tributes 

 reflect the character of their author. 



FREYCTNET EXPEDITION. 



A little more than a year after Chamisso's visit, on March 17, 1819, 

 the French corvette Uranie, Louis de Freycinet commanding, arrived 

 at Guam. With him were the botanist, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, 

 the zoologists Quoy and Gaimard, and an artist named Arago. A 

 stay of several months allowed the naturalists to make extensive col- 

 lections and . observations on the island of Guam, and the islands of 

 Rota and Tinian were also visited by them. On the return voyage 

 the Uranie, while at the Falkland Islands, struck a rock and foundered. 

 Gaudichaud's collections were almost ruined. The hold, in which his 

 herbarium was stowed, was flooded, and the plants saturated with sea 

 water. Only a collector can appreciate the feelings of Gaudichaud 

 when, several days afterwards, he fished them up and spread them out 

 to dry as best he could. The collections were taken to France in the 

 Physicienne, and deposited in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, at 

 Paris. An interesting account of the vegetation of Guam was given 



« ' ' Der f roinme Missionar Don Diego Luis de San Vitores landete auf Guajan ini 

 Jahre 1667; er begehrte den Volkern das Heil zu bringen, aber es folgten ihm Sol- 

 daten und Geschiitz. Noch vor dem Schlusse des Jahrhunderts war das "Werk voll- 

 bracht, und diese Nation war nicht rnehr. Pacificar nennen's die Spanier." Chamisso, 

 Bemerkungen und Ansichten, p. 90. 



6 See p. 117. 



c De Plantis in Expeditione speculatoria Eomanzoffiana observatis, etc. Linnsea, 

 erster Band, Jahrgang, 1826, Berlin. 



