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covery at their joint expense. In this expedition 
embarked Wadstrom, who was an enthusiast with 
respect to colonization ; Sparrman and ArrheniuSy 
who were enthusiasts in natural science ; while 
the enthusiasm of their joint employer M, Chau- 
veil, coincided entirely with the financial views of 
his Swedish majesty, who loved gold much bet- 
ter than any other natural production. These 
adventurers left Sweden in May 1787, on their 
journey to Paris, where, through the representa- 
tions of Baron Stael von Holstein, Swedish am- 
bassador, they, after some delay, procured from 
the Mareschal de Castries, minister at war and of 
the colonies, orders to the superintendents of all 
the French factories, as well as to their consuls 
on the coast of Barbary, to afford them every 
possible assistance at the expense of government. 
They sailed from Havre de Grace in August 1787> 
and arrived at Goree about the end of the rainy 
season, where they were received by the Chevalier 
de Boufflers wdth the utmost politeness. His de- 
parture to Europe, soon after their arrival, render- 
ed abortive their expectations of assistance from 
the agents of the Senegal Company, who refused 
to furnish them with those goods which were ab- 
solutely necessary for their proposed expedition 
into the interior of the country. The general 
war, excited by the rapacious and oppressive 
monopoly exercised by the Senegal Company^ 
