* AFBICAlf THAT ELS. 
thw! formed tlie friendship that still unites us. were an- 
pointed to accompany tins expedition as naturalists. 
• , , had fl: : ttor ®d myself during several months with the 
(ha of sharing the labours directed to so great and honour- 
able an object when the war which broke out in Golan - and 
Italy, determined the l-'rench government to withdraw the 
unc s granted for their voyage of discovery, and ad oum it 
to an uKMmto period. Deeply mortified at finding the 
plans 1 had formed during many years of my life overthrown 
m a single day, I sought at any tisk the speediest means of 
M uttmg Europe, and engaging in some enterprise which 
ini«ht console mo for my disappointment. 
I became acquainted with a Swedish consul, named Skiolde- 
Si rtoiiri s v b t- c A, a ^ ointcd ^ ,iis 
to embark at nri? u A,g £T?’ ' vas . P as ™ff through Paris, 
o embark at IVLusulles. this estimable man bad resided 
along time on the coast of Africa ; and being highly respected 
by the government of Algiers, he could easily procure 1: 
pei mission to visit that part of the cliain of the Atlas which 
had not been i he object of the important researches of M 
whe 0U l| l ' K "i He deS j ,at , ched cvei T year a vessel for Tunis' 
when, the pilgrims embarked for Mecca, and lie promised to 
convey me by the same medium to Egypt. I eagerly seized 
so favourable an opportunity, and thought myself ‘on the 
point o executing a plan which I had formed previously to 
my arrivai m Prance. No mineralogist had yet SS 
that lofty chain of mountains which, in the empire of 
Moroceo, rises to the limits of the perpetual snow. Tflal 
leied myself, that, after executing some operations in t he 
a pme regions of liarbary, I should receivo^n E^ypt from 
^nths formed 
manute ot C airo, the same kind attentions with which i 
bad been honoured during my abode in Paris I hastily 
completed my collection of instruments, and pm-chased voS 
relating to the countries I was going te visif t 
» brother « ho, by bi, .dvioe^uf ~l, hS i,Wo 
< ™ ed * m A pence on the direction of my thoughts 
• pproted tne motives which determined me to quit^Eu 
rope; a secret voice assured us that we should meet agate- 
pam ot a long separation. I left Paris with the intention 
