. The bird. Birds. THE FIRST FLUTTERINGS OF THE WING. 93 trious travellers, ardent lovers of nature, often without means, often without assistance, have followed it into the deserts, watched and surprised it in its mysterious retreats, voluntarily enduring thiret and hunger and incredible fatigues; never complaining, thinking them- selves too well recompensed, full of devotion, of gratitude at each fresh discovery; regretting nothing in such an event, not even the death of La Perouse* or Mungo Park,f death by shipwreck, or death among the Bid them live again here in our midst! If the
. The bird. Birds. THE FIRST FLUTTERINGS OF THE WING. 93 trious travellers, ardent lovers of nature, often without means, often without assistance, have followed it into the deserts, watched and surprised it in its mysterious retreats, voluntarily enduring thiret and hunger and incredible fatigues; never complaining, thinking them- selves too well recompensed, full of devotion, of gratitude at each fresh discovery; regretting nothing in such an event, not even the death of La Perouse* or Mungo Park,f death by shipwreck, or death among the Bid them live again here in our midst! If their lonely life flowed free from Europe for Europe's benefit, let their images be placed in the centre of the grateful crowd, with a brief exposition of their for- * The unfortunate navigator. Jean Fran9ois de Calaup, Comte de La Perouse, was horn in 1741. At an early age he entered the French navy, rose to a high grade, and distin- guished himself by his services against the English in North America. In 1783 he was appointed to command an expedition of discovery, and on the 1st of August 1785, sailed from Brest with two frigates, the Boussole and the Astrolabe. He reached Botany Bay in January 1788, and thenceforward was no more heard of for years. Several vessels were despatched to ascertain his fate, but could obtain no clue to it. In 1826, however. Captain Dillon, while sailing amongst the Queen Charlotte Islands, discovered at Wanicoro the re- mains of the shipwrecked vessels. A mausoleum and obelisk to the memory of their un- fortunate commander was erected on the island in 1828.—Translator. t Mungo Park, the illustrious African traveller (born near Selkirk in 1771), perished on his second expedition to the Niger towards the close of the year 1805. No exact informa- tion of his fate has been obtained, but from the evidence collected by Clapperton and Lander, it seems probable that he was drowned in attempting to navigate a narrow channel of the river in the territory of
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