My clothes were a small coat of linsey-woolsey cloth, unhemmed, with small cuffs and a collar of woollen plush. Neat trousers of leather, a wig with a pigtail. A green fustian cap with ear-flaps. Short boots on my feet. A little leather bag about 1 foot long, somewhat less in width, of white-tanned leather, with eyelets on one side to fasten it up and to hang it by. In this I put 1 shirt, 2 pairs of halfsleeves, 2 nightshirts, an inkhorn, pen-box, microsope, spyglass, a gauze hood to protect me from midges. This notebook. A bundle of paper stitched together in which to place plants – both folio-sized. A comb. My ‘Ornithology’, ‘Flora Uplandica’ and ‘Characteres generici’. A long hunting-knife at my side and a small gun between my thigh and the saddle. An eight-sided stick on which measurements were marked, a wallet in my pocket with a pass from the chancellery in Uppsala and a letter of recommendation from the Society.