TRAVELS IN BRAZIL* 



embassy. All three were on board the Austria; 

 as well as the commander of the two frigate^ 

 Quarters were assigned on board the same vessel^ 

 to professor Mikan and his lady; the two Bavariani: 

 naturalists, Spix and Martins ; the Austrian land^, 

 scape painter Th. Ender ; M. Weber, merchant^ 

 of Triest; and to M. Nerini, Austrian consul-, 

 general at Cadiz, who took the opportunity of this 

 conveyance to Gibraltar. The Augusta frigate 

 took on board the Austrian naturalist, Natterer ;[ 

 the gardener, Schott ; the botanical painter, Buch-: 

 berger, with some assistants 5 a mercantile commis-^ 

 sion6r, and his secretary. The command of thm 

 vessel wa§ given to lieutenant-cdloiiel Agurti.t 

 The Austrian mineralogist Pohl, and the animal 

 painter Frick, were to make the voyage on board! 

 a Portuguese vessel. Count Von Wrbna was to 

 proceed from London to Brazil, to bring thitheh 

 the first news of the celebration of the marriage 

 by proxy. The two frigates were ordered to sail 

 in company to Gibraltar, there to Wait for the> 

 Archduchess; who, with her retinue and the em-> 

 bassy, was ' t6 ' embark on board a Portuguese; 

 squadron drdered to Leghorn. As sopn as all> 

 the travellers w6re on board, and the preparations, 

 entirely completed, the governor of Triest visited^ 

 the two frigates, each of which had forty-foilr guns,; 

 and a crew of ^60 rnen, inspected the Crews and 

 the cargoes, and then, with the most ardent wisheS;/ 

 for' a happy voyage, and amidst the thunder of^ 

 artillery, took his leave4^:^ >'i r^oY t- ) f f-U'} 



