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BULLETIN OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. 
Napoleon had been carried thence to St. Helena ; then southward to 
Teneriffe, Brazil, around Cape Horn to Chili ; taking leave then of 
Spanish-speaking lands, for three months and a half through the 
islands of the Pacific almost without dropping anchor, to Kamtchatka ; 
in the summer of 1819 through Behring’s Strait into the Arctic Ocean 
and back among the Aleutian Islands, where preparations were begun 
for the polar voyage proposed for the following summer. In the in- 
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terval, from September to March, the Rurik sailed to San Francisco, 
the Sandwich Islands and the Radack chain of the Marshall Islands, 
seeking chiefly supplies and only incidentally scientific information, it 
seems. On the return northward from this winter in summer seas 
there occurred the storm of April 18, 1817, in which the ship was 
damaged and the commander so injured that the main purpose of the 
expedition, the search for the north-east passage, was abandoned. 
On the map Kotzebue Sound, Eschscholtz Bay, Chamisso Island, all 
under the Arctic Circle, remain as reminders of the captain, the physi- 
cian, and the naturalist of the Romanzoff expedition. The return 
voyage brought the Rurik again to the Sandwich Islands, and to the 
Radack group a third time ; thence by the Marianne and Philippine 
Islands, through Sunda Strait, by the Cape of Good Hope, past St. 
Helena, (where the strict watch kept over ‘‘Prometheus upon his 
rock” made it dangerous, in the case of the Rurik, to land), on to Eng- 
land, Copenhagen again, and, finally on August 3, 1818, to St. 
Petersburg. Chamisso declined inviting offers to remain in Russia, 
was generously allowed to keep his collections, and in October reach- 
ed Berlin, where he long enjoyed alone the distinction of having sailed 
around the world. 
Though his purpose on returning had been to go upon another 
scientific journey soon, the remainder of his life was passed in Ger- 
many, and, excepting a few absences, in Berlin. For here in 1819 he 
was given charge of the Botanical Garden, and later of the Herbarium 
also ; about the same time began his married life, which continued 
without a shadow until his wife’s sudden death in 1837. He survived 
