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the fine season should return. When the frigates com¬ 
manded by Captain Cook, the Resolution and Adventure, 
arrived at the Cape, Forster invited the young Swedish 
naturalist to accompany him ; and Sparrman was thus 
enabled to visit New Zealand, Van Diemen’s Land, New 
Holland, Otaheite, Tierra del Fuego, the Antarctic 
Eegions, and New Georgia, before his return to the 
Cape, where he landed on the 22nd of March, 1775. 
SPARRMAN' CROSSING RENT RIVER. 
His first, care upon his return was to organise his 
expedition to the interior ; and in order to add to his 
available resources he practised medicine and surgery 
during the winter. A cargo of corn, medicine, knives, 
tinder-boxes, and spirits for the preservation of speci¬ 
mens was collected, and packed in an immense waggon, 
drawn by five yoke of oxen. 
Sparrman says :—- 
“ The conductor of this cart needs dexterity, not only 
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