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THE VOYAGE OF THE INDIAN

EMPIRE.

The following particulars are supplied by the
Freeman's Journal :—" The anxiety which for some
time past has prevailed so generally in this country
relative to the safety of the Indian Empire, whose
arrival at Galway was so long overdue, is now
happily allayed, the gallant vessel having anchored
in Broadhaven at 9 a.m. on Friday morning, after
having experienced one of the most terrific and
continuous storms that has ever been witnessed
in the Atlantic. The gratification which all
persons must feel at learning the safety
of a ship respecting which some apprehensions
had been entertained will be enhanced in the
minds of Irishmen by the fact that the steamer whose
safe arrival we now chronicle is one belonging to
the newly established Transatlantic line, whose
prosperity is a subject of such lively interest to the
people of this country. The arduous and danger-
ous passage which the Indian Empire has success-
fully accomplished under the most adverse circum-
stances lasted in all 25 days from Halifax to
Ireland. We • have been enabled to glean the
following particulars of this interesting voyage,
which will satisfactorily account for the delay, and
which may be relied on as strictly accurate.
Having taken in a fresh supply of coal, and repaired
some trifling damage which had been sustained by a
collision with a brig on leaving New York har-
bour, the Indian Empire having then 16 days'
supply of coal, , left Halifax on the afternoon of
Saturday, the 31st of October, and had a
tolerably favourable run to Cape
ace, a distance
of about 500 miles. The wind was not directly
favourable, being on her quarter, and the average
speed of the ship during this time was 11 knots an
hour. Upon rounding Cape Race the wind shifted
dead a-head, and gradually rising blew with great
violence, which in a few days increased to a most
fearful hurricane. The ship gallantly struggled
against the violence of the wind and waves, the
captain displaying all the resources of skilful and
experienced seamanship, and being ably seconded
by his officers and crew, who had the most implicit
reliance in his ability and judgment. Of
course, progress was scarcely possible under the
circumstances, and after 13 days. of such weather as
has rarely been experienced in the AtlantiC, even at
this season of the year, the captain found himself
still four days voyage from Galway. Upon calculat-
ing the amount of coal which remained on board,
and finding that it was barely sufficient for a four
days run, he thought it expedient to lie-to rather
than incur the risk of expending all his fuel in an un-
availing struggle against the elements. At this
time there was a fair prospect of more favourable
weather; the barometer was rising, indications of
a change were apparent, and moreover it is
an unprecedented thing for a south-easterly
wind to last three weeks in the Atlantic, especially
at this season of the year, when westerly winds
more generally prevail. However, the expectation
of fine weather was not fulfilled; the wind still
'continued high, and the Indian Empire lay to seven
days, during which time she made a little headway.
At the end of seven days there was a lull, and the
captain gave orders to steam ahead, in the hope of
completing the passage without further difficulty.
In a short time, however, the wind again sprung up
and increased almost to its former violence. At one
time on Wednesday last, the Indian Empire reached
within 25 miles of the Galway coast, running at
the rate of 2+ knots an hour against a heavy sea,
when the gale increasing in violence, drove her a
distance of 100 miles away to the westward. The
prudence and foresight of Capt. Courtenay in hav-
ing laid to for seven days was then made manifest,
for at this time the coals had been completely ex-
hausted, and it became necessary to consume a small
portion of the cargo, consisting of cotton, stores, &c.,
and also some spare spars and part of the planking of
the decks. At half-past lon the morning of Friday,
the lights of Broadhaven were sighted, and we need
not say that every one on board experienced the
keenest delight at the approaching termination of
their long and difficult voyage. Broadhaven, as
our readers know, is an excellent harbour on the
coast of Mayo, about 40 Miles from Westport ;
and eight hours after its lights were sighted the
Indian Empire dropped her anchor in the harbour
amid the hearty cheers of the passengers and
crew. It is gratifying to be able to state
that at no time—even during the greatest vio-
lence of the gale—did the passengers manifest the
slightest alarm or apprehension. Their confidence
in the captain, officers, and crew never for a
moment failed, and they took frequent occasion
during the voyage to give expression to this feel-
ing. They knew that everything which skill and
judgment could do would he effected to bring the
vessel in ' • and their confidence was increased by
the good qualites displayed by the ship, which
excited the admiration alike of the experi-
enced- and the inexperienced. The manner in
which the Indian Empire stood the severe test to
which she was subjected proves her to be an excel-
lent sea boat, well adapted for Atlantic navigation.
No more convincing proof of this could be affqrded
than the fact that she shipped one sea only during
the whole passage, Captain Courtenay, who has
had large experience as an Atlantic navigator, states
that the weather was unprecedented in its combina-
tion of violence and duration.

THE ANDOVER MURDER.

Yesterday morning Thos. A. Banks was brought
up before the borough magistrates, at the Town-
hall, Andover, charged with having murdered the
deceased Wm. Parsons. Mr. Loscombe, solicitor,
again appeared to prosecute on the part of the
friends of deceased, and Mr. Poland, instructed by
Messrs. Earl and Smith, for the prisoner. The
Town-hall, long before the hearing of the case, was
thronged, the respectable position of both the de-
ceased and the accused creating great interest.
At the request of the clerk to the borough magis-
trates, Mr. Footner, who had acted as coroner on
the inquest, Mr. Lamb, clerk to the county magis-
trates, was appointed to act in his stead on this
occasion.

Mr. Loscombe said it was painful to him to be
placed in the position of having to charge the pri-
soner with the crime of murder. He should on
the present occasion merely bring before them evi-
dence to prove that a murder had been committed,
and the finding of the body, together with the fact
that information had been obtained which led to
the belief that the prisoner was implicated in the
horrible crime ; and if their worships were satisfied
that such was the case he should then ask them to
remand the prisoner until a future day, to give
time for the completion of the evidence.
Mr. Northover and Mr. Superintendent Wedge
then recapitulated the evidence they gave before
the coroner. Mr. Wedge, in answer to Mr. Los-
combe, said he was in possession of information
which led him to believe that the prisoner at the
bar was implicated in the transaction. He was
not in a position to lay the facts before the court
on that day. if the investigation were adjourned
for a week he should be enabled to bring sufficient
evidence to obtain a committal ; but if that evi-
dence were then given it would tend to thwart the
ends of justice.

The prisoner was then remanded for a week.
Mr. Poland made an application to the bench
that the prisoner might be allowed to confer with
his legal adviser, which was granted ; also that he
might be allowed to see his wife in the presence of
an officer.

LITERATURE.

It is always desirable to gain some information of
the inner life and secret musings of those who,
during their sojourn in this passing scene, have
been in any way conspicuous in their attainments
among, their fellowmen. In the work before us
there is no exaggerated statement, and no attempt
at display; but facts are simply stated, and opinions
brought forward, the authenticity of which cannot
be doubted. .At the close of his memoir it is thus
observed—" Of his long life, seven-five years and
six months, the 23d Psalm contains the epitome.
It never rose to triumphant success or world-wide
reputation; but he who works and feels he works,
he who prays and knows he prays, has got the
secret of transforming life—failure into life—
victory," This memoir, with the extensive and
interesting range of its subjects, will be a valuable
addition to the library of the litterateur and the
artist.

Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the
Coasts of the Pacific. By Baldwin Mollhausen.
, Translated by Mrs. Percy Sinnett. 2 vols.
Longman.
In the year 1853 the Government of the United
States despatched three expeditions, along different
latitudes, through the wild and desolate regions
that surround the Rocky Mountains, to discover
the best route for a railway to California The
author of the work before us, a young German of
great energy and ability, was appointed topogra-
phical draughtsman and naturalist to one of these
expeditions. He was strongly recommended by
the illustrious Alexander von Humboldt, who was
much interested in his career, both from a desire to
encourage talent, and from the sympathy he felt
for the congenial tastes of the young traveller. He
has also shown his friendship by giving the present
volumes the sanction of his name and approval ;
and in a brief, but interesting, preface has expressed
his entire satisfaction with their contents. He
observes, with truth, that " when a traveller's
descriptions are the result of accurate and con.
scientious observation, and especially when they
concern the condition of natives standing at various
grades of uncivilised life, they must always interest
the student of humanity." The wild tribes of the
American Indians have always occupied a some-
what elevated position in our general estimation of
savages. There is something poetical in our asso-
ciations with these red men of the West, gradually
yielding to the inevitable ascendancy of the whites,
and passing away from their hunting grounds with
the traditions of the past. It is somewhat curious
to find these Indians, who are usually pictured only
with the war-dance and the tomahawk, tending the
ground and devoting themselves to agriculture.
This, however, is not of frequent occurrence; it is
not often, owing to the cupidity and cruelty of the
whites, that they have the opportunity. Xot the
least interesting portion of M. Mollhausen's work
is his description of the habits and character of
the different tribes of the natives. The trapper's
stories, the narrative of the hunter who was
abandoned in the wilds, and many other
anecdotes and incidents, serve to illustrate
their character better than any verbal ac-
count. M. Mollhausen's knowledge as a naturalist
and his observation of the habits and peculiarities
of the animal kingdom also add largely to the in-
formation to be derived from his work, and he has
had the advantage of the studies of others of the
party in his geological and botanical accounts. The
part of the country which they examined has so
seldom been traversed by whites, being so wild and
desolate in some parts, besides. being the resort of
Indians, that his narrative has all the freshness and
novelty of the description of a new country, com-
bined with instruction for the scientific, and adven-
tures for the lovers of the startling and dangerous.
Many hardships and privations had to be under
gone by tho little party, the worst of which, was
the want of water, from which the poor cattle suf-
fered severely. Many of the mules were so ex-
hausted by the fatigue and bad food, that they had
to be killed, as they could no longer continue the
toilsome march. These animals are peculiarly fitted
by nature for the journey through these regions.
Their strength and power of enduring fatigue, the
writer tells us, far exceed those of the horse. "In
situations where the latter, though relieved of all
his burden, can scarcely drag along his exhausted
limbs, and must perhaps be left behind as a prey
for the wolves, the, mule goes on patiently, bearing
his burden, and fighting against hunger by crop-
ping the withered plants of the marshes, or even
prickly brambles. Bnt as the strength of the horse
and the perseverance of the ass are in some mea-
sure united in the mule, so does he also unite in his
own person all the faults that can make horse or
ass intolerable—timidity, obstinacy, perseverance,
cunning, are the qualities with which one has to
contend in them, especially in the process of break-
ing." The travellers had a proof of the timidity
of their herd by an accident that detained them two
or three days. A flock of wolves coming very near
the mules one night, the animals, panic stricken,
broke loose, and were only recovered after .a long,
search and loss of time. Fortunately, notwith-
standing all their difficulties and dangers, the party
completed their expedition safely and satisfactorily
r —having only lost one poor Mexican, who was
murdered by the Pah-Utah 'lndians, one of the
lowest and most degraded of the tribes. Some
of the other tribes behaved very differently, even
offering the party guides for a portion of their
route. Another of the expeditions was not so for-
tunate. Captain Gunnison, the commander, and
six of his officers, having left the main body to ex-
plore the neighbourhood, were murdered by the
Utah Indians. The little party of which our
author was one, did not happily meet with any
such frightful disaster, though on one occasion no
less than nine of their party were attacked by
smallpox, that frightful scourge of the Indian ter-
ritories, which is said to have been introduced by
a negro attendant of Cortes. They all recovered,
and M. Mollhausen attributes their safe passage
through a district inhabited by hostile tribes to the
presence of this,deadly foe of the natives in their
camp. The old Indian inscriptions found on some
of the rocks are curious, but they are eclipsed by
the interest awakened in the mind of the European
by such words as the following cut in the rocks by
the Fish Spring, near Pueblo de Zuni—" Bartolome
Narrso, governor and captain general of the pro-
vince of New Mexico, came past this place on his
return from Pueblo de Zuni, on the 29th of July
of the year 1020, &e."
" There pissed this place with despatches (some words
effaced) on the 16th day of April, 1606."
There are many such inscriptions on this smooth
rock, mostly in the Spanish tongue, speaking to the
travellers of the present of those brave but cruel
adventurers of the past, who gave Europe a new
world, but have left the trace of inhumanity and'
treachery to be the bane of Spanish America to this
day. One of the greatest natural curiosities met
with by the party was the Petrified Forest, near by
the Rio Secco which M. Mollhausen thus de-
scribes :
"As we proceeded furtherwe re illy thought we saw before us masses of wood that had been floated hither, or even a
tract of woodland where the timber had been felled for the
purposes of cultivation, Trees of all sizes lay irregularly

A Memoir of Thomas Uwins, R.A., late Keeper of
the Royal Galleries, and the National Gallery,
Librarian of the oyal Academy. By Mrs..
U wins. 2 vols. Longman.
These volumes form an interesting subject for
perusal. They afford a clear insight into the diffi-
culties that attend the career of artists, and at the
same time they present in an attractive manner the
bright inducements to progress in the glories of the
noble art to which they devote their lives. This
work is compiled from various sources, a great por-
tion consists of letters which Thomas Uwins wrote
to his brothers during seven years spent in Italy,
and there is also published some correspondence
with the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Charles
Eastlake, A. E. Chalon, R.A. These latter epistles
are of great value, and will doubtless be attentively
regarded by those who wish to become acquainted
with the opinions of eminent individuals, expressed
without reserve, and containing that freedom of
thought which can only exist where the writer is
treating of a familiar subject to a kindred intelli-
gence, or a congenial spirit. The letters which
Mr. Uwins wrote to his brothers are replete with
information that is conveyed in an agreeable style;
his impressions of the manners and modes of foreign
life are forcibly expressed, the first of his travels
was undertaken for the purpose of sketching a vine-
yard, he gives a glowing account of the "vinecovered
hills and gay valleys of France." As may be imagined
it was in Italy that the artist awakened to the
influence of the greatest delight, and was excited
by the most ardent aspirations. "A thing of
beauty is a joy for ever," seems exemplified by the
effect produced on the minds of successive genera-
tions as they behold the treasures with which Art
has made glorious the cities of the South. Thomas
Uwins was fully sensible of the obstacles that lay
in his path in consequence of the drawbacks of his
early years. He thus mentions the subject in a
letter to Sir Thomas Lawrence :
I"Allow me to thank you for much kindness and valuable
criticism. Your words contain a principle,• which may be-
come, as Lord Verulam has it, ' parcel of my own ramd ;'
but clearness of colour and lightness of hand depend too
much on early habit and long o.practice for me to expect the
attainment. A man who begins his career in the arras an
engraver, tollows it out as a water-colour painter, and only
takes to oil when he becomes too blind to continue this
miserable course, must never hope entirely to emancipate
himself from the trammels with which .such a course will
inevitably surround him. I do not hope for it; and my
chief reason for staying so long in Italy is, that a new class
of subjects may give me that advantage in the market
which the feebleness of my powers as a painter would
otherwise dony me."

Wind N.W.

Wind W.; moderate,

THIS DAIS SHIPPING.

ffLownoN, Nov. 30.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.
strong breeze, and cloudy.
TEIGNMOUTH, Nov. 29—Wind S.W.—AtTived—Abetuu.,
from Labrador.

JERSEY, Nov. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Echo, from
Labrador.
CLAGGAN, Nov. 27.—Arrived—Governor Douglas, from
the Gold Coast, leaky and in want of provisions. Crew in
a weak state, and the Coastguard assisting at the pumps.
OFF DARTMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Arrived—Gertrude, from
Havannah, for Bremen.

Pm-motTR, Nov. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Rt
vensdalet from San Francisco, with damage to rudder.

(EY ELECTRIC TELEGItAPII
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning..

Arrived—Colert, Felicity, and Richard Hill, from Car-
diff; Llangothland, Tiber, Rhind, Wanderer, British Lady,
and Bewley, from Newport ; Dispatch, steamer, from Jer-
sey ; Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Providence, and
Emerald, from Ne•ith.
Sailed—Alliance, steamer, for Havre ; La Poule, for
Cherbourg ; Wonder, and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.S.W.
Arrived, Nov. 29.--Rock City, from Bombay; Roger
tit-3wart and J. M. Wood, from New Orleans
Arrived, Nov. 30.-2-Georgiana, from Africa"; Marchant,
from Buenos Ayres; Charlotte Reed, from New Orleans;
Great Western and Orient, from New York ; City of Man-
chester, from Quebec ; Urania, from Gergenti ; Excelsior,
from Malaga; Mystery,- from Rouen; Emanuel, from
Lucon ; Bienvenu, from Dunkirk ; Duchess, from Jamaica.
g The Corinthian, from Rio Janeiro, arrived at this port
making much water, having been ashore last night on
West Hoyle. The anet Kidson, from Quebec, for Cardiff,
was spoken in lat. 46, long. 21, in great distress and leaky,
and supplied her with provisions.

(BY SUBMARINE AND, BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind S.W. ; tide, high water weather, fresh and cloudy.
. Arrive], Nov. 29.—Mellona, Isabella and Jane, Emma
Eden, Larmes, Lively, Ino, Joseph, Lord Strangfcrd, John
Wesley, Ellen Murray, Good Intent, Reward, Providence,
Prince Alber, Wave, Hero—all from Guernsey ; Clarenda,
from Quebec; Arithus, from Buenos Ayres; Eglontiue,
from Taganrog ; Storm, from Zante ; Ghentu, from Ja-
maica • Franklin, from Algoa Bay; City of Peterborough,
from:Rangoon ; Eliza Mary, from Calcutta; Westminster,
from Wellington; Celina, from Bor ; Andromache, from
Callao ; Mary Winch, from Sierra Leone.
Arrived, Nov. 30—Wave, Shealtiel, Mary's, Don Colino,
and Alisill—all from Guernsey ; Shooting Star, from Bahil;
Experitor, from Lucon ; Mary Adeal, from Nantes; Mar-
garet Reid, from Koige ; Sylph, from Nantes; City of
Pekin, from Calcutta ; Excelsior, from Denia; Golden
Fleece, from Columbia ; Cordelia, from Porto Rico; Konich,
from Cronstadt.
Sailed, Nov. 30—Isabella, for Madeira; Reliance, for
Algoa Bay; Excelsior, for Auckland; Victoria, for New
York.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Anchored-1;;;;;, ;d Jane, from London, for the Cape
of Good Hope ; Amazon, from Now York ; St. George,
from Singapore; Clive, from St. Helena; Hastings, from
Bombay—all for London.
Passed—Harold, Swedish brig, from the westward ;
Ladoro, from Colombo—both for London.

THE LATE DINNER TO GENERAL INGLIS.--In
the account of this event which appeared in our paper of
the 26th inst., the name of Captain Ruggles should have
appeared among those of the gallant little band assembled
to do honour to their worthy chief.
COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT.--A suggestion hay-
ing been made that it would be an appropriate expression of
sympathy with M. do Montalembert that the fine which the
French Court of Correctional Police has imposed on him
should be paid by Oxfordand Cambridge, a subscription for
that purpose has been opened in Cambridge. The co-ope-
ration of Oxford has been solicited, and should it be obtained
the amount to be raised in either university will be £6O.
Subscriptions may be paid to the Clerk of the Union So-
ciety; Messrs. Macmillan and Co. ; Messrs. Deighton,
Beil, and Co. The amount of each subscription is fixed at
53.—Cambridge, Nov. 27.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held before
the Borough Coroner of Liverpool, on Saturday, on the
body of a carter namad Richard Martin, aged 40. On Tues-
day the deceased was assisting to swing a Inge flagstone
from a railway waggon in the station of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company, when the chain broke, and the stone,
which was two and a-half tons weight, fell upon him,
crushing both legs in a shocking manner. Ho was taken
to the IN orthern Hospital, where amputation of both limbs
was found to be necessary, but he only survived the opera-
tion until Friday. A verdict of "Accide ital death" was
recorded.
•

scattered about, and amongst theft/ stumps with the roofs
that had been left standing; some of them were more than
sixty feet long, and of corresponding girth, rind looking as
if they had been cut into regular blocks, was*. broken
branches and chips lay heaped up near. On a closer ex-
amination we found they were fossil trees that had been
gradually washed bare by the torrents and had broken off
by their own weight, and that, singularly enough, in logs
of from one to three feet in length. We measured some of
the largest trunks, and found one of five feet in diameter.
Many of them were hollow—many looked as if half burnt,
and
they were mostly of a dark colour, but not_so much as
to prevent the bark, the burnt places, the- rings, and the
cracks in the wood from being clearly asc,crnible. In sonic
of the blocks appeared the most beautiful blending of agate
and jaspar colours; and, in others, which had yielded to the
.influence of the weather and fallen to pieces, there were bits '
so brilliantly tinted that if polished and set they would have
made elegant ornaments ; others, again, had not yet lost the
original colour of their wood, and looked so like decaying
beams of deal that one felt tempted to convince oneself; by
the touch, of their petrifaction. If you pushed these they
fell into pieces that had the appearance of rotten clanks,
We collected small specimens of all these various kinds of
fossil trees, and regretted that as our means of transport
were so small we had to content ourselves with fragments,
which certainly showed the variety of their petrifaction, but
not the dimensions of the blocks."
Another natural curiosity is the Cereus giganteus,
known in California and New Mexico as the Peta-
haya, which M. Mollhausen aptly styles the queen]
of the cactus tribe. Those who have only seen the
cactus in our hothouses would perhaps scarcely
credit that the Petahaya grows to a height of from
thirty to forty feet, and that they are said in some
localties even to reach sixty. They are altogether
eclipsed by the giant trees of California, of which
family one specimen was 300 feet high, measured
96 feet in circumfeaence, 32 in diameter, and whose
rings indicate that it has attained the age of 3,000
years. This tree, not inaptly designated the Big
Tree, was. some time since cut down. It. took five
men twenty-five days to fell it, and the stump
which was left has been smoothed at the
top, and now it is said that sixteen pairs
of waltzers can dance on it without interfering
with each other. Another group of trees
are called the Three Sisters, as they all appear to
issue from the same root, and the middle one only
begins to get its branches at the height of 200 feet;
its circumference .is 92, and its height 300 feet.
Many such interesting details are given, and the
traveller's account of the animal kingdom is no
'less attractive. 'His accounts of the community
of prairie dogs and beavers might well appear in-
credable to those who have never watched the
wonderful sagacity of some of the lower mess.
The author, though a keen sportsman, evidently
takes a kindly interest in all living creatures, and
his knowledge of their habits and instincts is ex-
tensive. His accounts of the various rivers, the
shallow Rio Grande, which varies from 400 to 800
feetin width, whilst the depth is on an average
scarcely 2 or 3, to the great Colorado of the
West, which the party reached after a journey
of 1,522 miles from Fort Smith. It is curious
that it was not till the year 1700 that
the Spaniards were convinced that California was
connected with the continent of America, and that
only the river Colorado flowed between. They
were indebted for the proof of this to Father Kino,
who received public thanks for his information. A
journey through the wilds of Central America
would, of course, be incomplete without the sight
of a prairie fire. Our author was fortunate
enough to see one, without running any risk. This
Magnificent sight is generally full of danger, and
M. Mollhausen describes it as a most impressive
spectacle The red natives of the steppe, who
are ready to meet with haughty defiance enemies
the most superior in strength, tremble at the
thought of the swiftly advancing fire, and the
proudest warrior among them will droop his deco-
rated head when you speak of it, and whisper, '
Do not awaken the anger of the Great Spirit.
He is in possession of a terrible medicine." The
sketches of the more Civilised towns through which
they passed,,and the descriptions of Panama and.
California are full of life and spirit. The expedi-
tion completed their survey, after having journeyed
over 1,892 miles, which would have been 1,360 in a
straight line. They had the gratification, besides
the credit due to their careful survey, of having
their route selected for the proposed railway line.
The official report of Mr. Jefferson Davies, of the
United States Government, is given, and contains
a useful summary, for practical purposes, of the re-
sults of the exploration survey. We must not omit
to mention tae numerous coloured illustrations
which are executed in chromolithography, and are
from the pencil of M. Mollhausen, on whose artistic
skill they refle et much credit. A map of the dis-
trict traversed is also given. Great praise is
due to Mrs. Percy Sinnett for her careful and ele-
gant translation, which has introduced the
work to the British public. It will inte-
rest the reader to know that the indefa-
tigable M. Mollhausen is once again on his
travels in the Far West, exploring and surveying
the River Colorado, with a new expedition from the
United States. His volumes offer attractions to
the geologist, the botanist, the ethnologist, and the
mere reader of travels. They reflect the highest
credit on his ability, energy, and humanity, and
add another to the list of those records of European
adventurers who have penetrated into the wildest
regions and mixed with the most uncultivated
tribes, who have visited the Esquimaux amid his
snows, and the wild Kirghis of the Tartar steppes ;
who have penetrated the deserts of Southern
Africa, and are now fearlessly treading the paths
of the red men amid the Rocky Mountains. Let
us hope that so much courage and enterprise may
meet:the reward of success, and that M. Mollhausen
may return in safety from his present expedition,
to add still further to our store of knowledge by
his:pictures of pen and pencil, diawn in the soli-
tudes of the Far West.