Early Botanical Explorers on the Pacific Coast 3 1 
Hawaiian Islands, a sketch of his journeys in North America and 
some of his letters were published in Hooker’s Companion to the 
Botanical Magazine™ In 1914 some of this material was repub¬ 
lished, together with his complete journal, by the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society of England. 21 That he was able to collect what he 
did seems incredible when one reads of the hardships that he en¬ 
dured—rain day after day, often without food, and in continual 
danger from the Indians. He never gave up, even when he be¬ 
came ill, but tried above all to keep his specimens and seeds from 
spoiling. An enumeration of the trees alone can be given. Many 
were named from botanical specimens collected by him and from 
which seeds were planted. Taxus hrevifolia (Yew), Juniperus 
occidentalis (Mountain Juniper), Pinus Lambertiana (Sugar 
Pine), P. contorta (Coast Pine), P. monticola (Mountain Pine), 
P. ponderosa (YellowPine), P. Sabiniana (Digger Pine), P. ra- 
diata (Monterey Pine), Abiesamabilis (Lovely Fir), A. grandis 
(Coast Fir), A. nobilis (Noble Fir), and the Santa Lucia Fir 
(A. venusta ) . c Among the oaks, he discovered Quercus Garry ana 
(Garry Oak), Q. Douglasii (Douglas Oak), Q. densiflora (Tan- 
bark Oak, now known as Eithocarpus) . He discovered Castanop- 
sis chrysophylla (Chinquapin) and Negundo californica (Box 
Elder), also known as Maple. It took him fifteen hours to climb 
the mountain, near the cascades of the Columbia River, where he 
found the two mountain firs, because the brush was so dense and 
the trees were in an unbroken forest. 22 
The following extracts from his journal tell of some of his 
trials and show his character: 
