And, ah! my friend, it iss worth the race, that Oregon.

Believe me, it iss full of bugs--of new bugs; twelve new species I haf discovered and named.

It iss sometings of honor, iss it not ?" "What you say interests me very much, sir," I said.

"I am only an American trader, knocking around to see the world a little bit.

You seem to have been engaged in some scientific pursuit in that country." "Yess," he said.