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The Floral King. 155
the continuation of his travels, he, in March 1751,
again proceeded from Damiette to Jaffa, Palestine
and Phenicia: then from Sidon, crossing by Cyprus,
Rhodes and Chios, returning to Smyrna, where he
arrived in August of the same year with a great
collection of all kinds of objects of Natural History,
but also a prey to deep consumption, to which he
succumbed in the village of Bagda, near Smyrna,
the gth of February, 1752.
His valuable collections were seized for debt, but
through the instrumentality of Linnzus, were —
redeemed with 14,000 daler copper coin, paid by
Queen Lovisa Ulrica, the then reigning sovereign of
Sweden. Arrived in Sweden they were added to the
collections of Natural History at Drottningholm, a
royal residence on an island in the lake of Malar,
some six English miles distant from Stockholm, and
called the ‘‘ Versailles” of Sweden. They were
described in Fredrik Hasselqvist’s Iter Palestinum, or
Journey to the Holy Land, by Her Majesty’s com-
mand, published by Carl Linnzus, Stockholm, 1715.
What has ultimately become of these valuable
_ collections is unfortunately not known.
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