TRAVELS IN BJlAZILv 



ko Brazil was confided, — had the goodness immedi- 

 Mely to introduce them to the learned gentlemeu 

 selected by the Austrian government, who were to 

 be their fellow travellers. Professor Mikan, from 

 iPrague, was appointed for ' the departments of 

 ^botany and entomology ; Mr. Pohl, M. D., for 

 piineralogy and botany ; Mr. Natterer, assistant in 

 ithe Imperial Museum of Natural History, for zoo- 

 dogy ; Mr. Th. Ender, to be landscape painter ; Mr. 

 Buchberger, botanical painter ; and M. H. Schott, 

 ison of the worthy superintendent of the University 

 .Garden, to be gardener ; the two last were assigned 

 ;^si assistants to professor Mikan : there were be- 

 dsides with the company a huntsman and a working 

 jminer. ':o'hu>9 "^'n^ll'^Yfrf"^ i^ifto' l>r^''? ^^^^c^Hd onic^rB'^ff? 

 1 Rejoiced at the acquaintance with our future 

 companions, we longed for orders to stt biit to- 

 igether for Triest. But as several circumstances 

 deft it doubtful when the two Austrian frigates 

 .would sail, we employed the time that we had re- 

 maining, partly in further preparations for the 

 voyage, especially in procuring maps and other 

 ithiilgs which could not be purchased in the New 

 eWorld, or only at a very great e:xpence, ^nd partly 

 lin visiting the lea|:ned men residing in the capital. 

 (Among these were the venerable Baron Von 

 Jacquin, the Nestor of German botanists (since 

 mhf(^rtunately dead), i»vho had himself passed njany 

 rybars in the West India islands, and on the Terra 

 (Firrtia, with such great advantage to science, and 



