A. S. Packard, Jr., Magister Artium, scientist,—devoting his attention chiefly to Insecta, Mollusca, and Radiata, but giving penetrating glances at geology and physical geography,—attracted to the North, where he had been before,—imperturbable, equal in humor and good-humor, companionable, a boon to the party, and richly meriting the thanks I here offer him.
M——, ornithologist,—young, unripe, inattentive to his person, but very intelligent, and bound to be a man of mark.
S——, "the Parson,"—Episcopal, twenty-five years old, active in mind, naturally eloquent, pious, social, genial, generous, and frank as the day.
P——, graduate of college and law-school,—handsome, companionable, fluent in writing or talk, and excellent at trolling a stave.
L——, quietest mouse in the world, but seen at once to be a gentleman, and found afterwards to be a man of thought and culture.
C——, with the gravest, maturest, most thoughtful and balanced mind, and one of the happiest appetites I ever found in a boy of fourteen, singularly ingenuous and high-minded, a rare spirit.
P——, photographer, skilful, and a good fellow.
W——, whose wife is enviable among women.
Captain H——, employed by Bradford, not as master, but as general ally,—old whaler, one of Nature's noblemen, to whom experience has been a university and the world a book, strong as the strongest of men, tender as the tenderest of women.
Ph——, fine Greek and Latin scholar, rich as Crœsus and simple in his habits as Ochiltree,—passionately fond of travel,—as well read, I will undertake to say, in the literature of travel in Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, as any other man twenty-five years old in Europe or America,—full of facts, strong in mind, deep In heart, religious, candid, sincere, courageous, at once frank and reticent,—a thoroughly large and profound nature, whom it was worth going to Labrador to meet.