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227 JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF DAVID DOUGLAS. 227 to walk with great caution, and more reservedly than before. If I find the natives hostile to the 'Man of Grass' [the name by which Mr. Douglas was generally known among them], I must shift my quarters to some other part of the country. I shall take the list of my Cana- dian plants to-day to Treuttel and Wurtz's for you, and am also send- ing to Dr. Richardson a notice of the Zoology of North-west America, to be published in the last volume of his Fauna. I am hourly expect- ing the summons to sail, and am not aware that we shall touch at any place, except the Sandwich Islands, where it is intended to make a short stay. By every opportunity, it will be my sincere pleasure to write to you, and tell you of my progress and plans; and I cannot ex- press the delight which I always feel in hearing from you, more es- pecially when I am separated from you by seas and distant lands, and yet busily employed in gathering and sending you the plants of those regions. I therefore entreat that, if it be only a few lines, you will do me the favour to write, or cause your sons to do so. It is not likely my time will permit me to address you again before sailing, let me therefore repeat once more how sincerely I feel myself indebted to you, not for much, but for all that I possess ; and that the many fa- vours and kind attentions I have always received from you command my warmest gratitude."