i 82 TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 
history at the university of Abo , in Finland , winch charge Linnaeus 
had previously obtained for him, and where he terminated his literary 
career in the year 1790. The mulberry-tree of Canada was by him in- 
troduced into Sweden , and cultivated in several gardens ; the Swedish 
government set a prize upon its cultivation in 1757, but the silk manu- 
fa£lures of that country never rose to a flourishing state. 
Some time after K a lm’s return, Dr. Rolander, one of his col- 
leagues, who had also been tutor to Lin n^eus, junior, made a voyage 
to Surinam and to the island of St. Eustatius in 1755 > ^ ut vo Y a S e 
was of no great utility, and he was one of those pupils with whose con- 
du£t Linnjeus was most dissatisfied. 
The melancholy fateof Ternstroem, Hasselquist and Forskal, 
who were cut off in the flower of youth in Asia, could by no means 
deter their countrymen. In 1750 Olof Toren made a voyage to 
the coast of Malabar and Surat , and some time after, Peter Osbeck, 
as chaplain of a Swedish East-Indiaman, sailed to China. Both returned 
safely with their treasures to Sweden, and published their observations*. 
The captain of the ship himself became conspicuous for his love of 
natural history and the zeal with which he served Linn^us. His name 
was EcKEBERGf. In 1765 A. Sparrmann made likewise a voyage 
with him to China ; he returned three years after, and from the year 
1772 till 1776 made a voyage round the world with Capt. Cook and 
Forster— also to the ocr; of Good Hope, and into the interior parts of 
the South of Africa, by which his name became so celebrated+. Much 
* P. Osbeck’s Journal of a voyage to the East-Indies, translated by.FoRSTER. 
Eckeberc’s voyage to the East-Indies, and Token’s tour to Surate, Stockholm, 1760. 
J Sbarrmann’s voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Stockholm 17S3, ^ v0 ' 
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