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may therefore rejoice in new explorations and enterprises, the inter- 
esting results of which my friends communicate to me by letter; 
thus maintaining a connection between myself and a country, the 
grand nature and the amiable inhabitants of which I shall always 
recall to my memory with feelings of warmest interest. 
The consequence of these happy and pleasant relations was, 
that instead of remaining in New Zealand only four or five months, 
as was my original intention, I remained nine, and only decided 
on returning to my native country on receiving tidings of the safe 
arrival home of the Novara. 
After the departure of the Novara I had taken up spacious 
and comfortable quarters in the so-called Clermont-House, Princes- 
Street, with Mr. Winchy, an ever obliging and complaisant host. 
A large, saloon-like apartment with a commanding view over a 
large portion of the lower town with the harbour as far as the wood- 
clad Titirangi-Range extending along the West-coast, served me 
both for a study, and for a cabinet for my collections. Zoology and 
botany having been the special fields assigned to m)' colleagues of 
the Novara Expedition, I thought it my duty now — left behind as 
I was, all by myself, — to avail myself of every opportunity on my 
travels, of making at the same time also zoological and botanical 
collections, and I arranged at once everything necessary for this 
purpose. At the same time I put advertisements in the papers re- 
questing the public to forward to me all objects in any way per- 
taining to natural history. In doing this I had a double object in 
view; first, the chance of one day receiving with the objects for- 
warded also information concerning the nature of districts which in 
consequence of my very limited time I should not be able to ex- 
plore myself; and secondly to be enabled to contribute to a mu- 
seum of natural history in the town of Auckland. I , therefore, 
requested the forwarding of duplicates of the same objects; and col- 
lected also myself multiplied specimens of every object of interest, 
in order to leave a portion of my collections behind for the Auck- 
land Museum. The colonists manifesting a lively sympathy for all 
my undertakings, my summons was crowned with success, and 
