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efforts, and by personal appeals collected in one week 
more than 7,000 dalers in copper [^175]. 
By this reinforcement Hasselquist was enabled to 
prosecute his journey. In March, 1751, he travelled 
to Palestine, explored a part of Arabia, and a large 
part of Syria, for a short time staying in Cyprus, 
Rhodes, and Chio, and then on to Smyrna, with a 
valuable store in all three ^kingdoms of nature. But 
he was immediately obliged to hurry from the un¬ 
healthy Smyrna to the village Bagda, where “ our 
beloved Dr. Hasselquist, like a lamp whose oil is 
consumed, died on the 9th February, 1752, at six in 
the evening, to the grief of all who knew him.” 
To the heavy sorrow which this event roused in 
Linne, there came trouble about the fate of the 
collections and notes. It appeared that Hasselquist 
had incurred a debt of 14,000 copper dalers [^350], 
and for this, the collections and manuscripts were 
seized in pledge. Linne doubted the justice of the 
claim, but saw that something must be done to avoid 
a “ double death, that not only had the traveller 
vanished, but his work threatened to vanish also, 
which would not be creditable to the nation among 
all who love science.” He turned therefore to Baron 
Hopken, and also to A. Back, saying, “ My heart 
bleeds every time I think about Hasselquist’s 
collections. It is a great sum ... it is dark for me.” 
Linne’s lamentation was not without result. In 
November, Back gave him to understand that the 
Queen, in consequence of his appeal and those of 
Tessin and Hopken, was disposed to pay the sum 
demanded. Linne’s delight found expression in his 
reply to Back. “ If the Queen redeems Hasselquist’s 
collection, Her Majesty is a goddess and my brother 
[Back] an angel.” 
The following year the collections came to Drott- 
ningholm Palace. Linne, who was summoned 
thither, grew giddy on beholding so many novel 
things at one time. Later he received the scientific 
