Above all, do not fail to bring back specimens of whatever you may find in the way of minerals.

Are these instructions sufficiently clear ?" "They seem so, sir." "Very well, then.

I wish you to start this very day, as I find that a steamer, on which your passage is already engaged, sails from a Brooklyn pier for St.Johns this afternoon.

This letter of credit, which only awaits your signature before a notary, will, if deposited with the bank of Nova Scotia in St.Johns, more than defray your year's expenses, and whatever you can save from it will be added to your salary.

Therefore, it will pay you to practise economy, though you must not hesitate to incur legitimate expenses or to spend money when by so doing you can further the objects of your journey.