They numbered about three hundred souls, and engaged the services of Dr. Hasbrouck as surgeon to the expedition. The experience of a few years convinced most of them that they had not bettered their condition by leaving their native country, and, through the influence of Dr. Hasbrouck, the captains of some ol the United States war vessels were induced to bring back the relics of the colony, who returned much better reconciled to the government and the starry flag than when they went away. While in Brazil he wrote a history of the practice of homcejpathy in that country, which was published by the New England Medical Gazette. He was on the island of St. Thomas during the hurricane and earthquake which devastated it, and published the first description of the fearful scene of destruction. On his return he graduated from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, and settled at Dobbs Ferry, where he remained three years in the practice of his profession. In 1874 he removed to New Y'ork, where he stayed till 1881, when he made a very extensive tour in Europe and the East, visiting Egypt and Palestine and most ot the countries of the Old World. Returning from his travels in 1883, he settled in Yonkers, which has since been his home.

He married Anna M., daughter of Captain John Stillwell, of New York, and has two children -- Augustus and Mabel. He holds a good position among the members of the homoeopathic medical profession, and is esteemed as a useful and worthy citizen.