15 
A VISIT TO HARRIS—ITS OBJECT 
The other articles which can scarcely be reduced 
o any distinct class ai‘e the following: pocket 
compass, knife, soap, razors, silk thread, wax 
buttons, sharpening stone, needles, lancets, opium’ 
a flute and some small boxes—all, excepting mv 
». un ’. P ac 'ked into two bundles, clapped upon my 
shoulders after the manner of a knapsack. The 
objects in view are, money to be obtained from 
some of my friends to enable me to prosecute my 
studies, my improvement in natural history 
particularly m ornithology, ichthyology and 
mineralogy, ^ botany too, inurement to hardship, 
the habit of early rising, dexterity in the use of 
the gun proficiency in physiognomy, knowledge of 
men and manners, romantic ideas, poetical imagery, 
sketches of landscape, drawings in zoology and 
botany, improvement in taste, some pftience, 
resolution, and inflexibility. If I catch rightly at 
opportunities I have a fair chance of accomplishing 
all those ends—objects more particularly in view 
a n e u an ln . t ® n T w with my uncle, the collection of 
shells and birds and plants. ... If I had lived in 
Quixote S ”° f C ma ry ’ 1 had cerfc ainly been another 
The accomplishment of all these objects as the 
result of the tour was certainly an undertaking 
which few young men would have proposed to 
themselves; and although, taking them all together, 
they do appear to suggest that he was not a little 
of a Quixote, yet they give evidence of a mind that 
would not be satisfied with following out a life too 
much restricted to any of the professional grooves 
which were open to his choice. 
The journal contains graphic and interesting 
narratives of incidents which occurred by the way 
