The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-06-22

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New YORK, June II.
RETURN OF THE EXPLORING EXPE-
s,-,--... DITION.
The United States ship Vincennes, reached
this port last evening The following account OF
the labors of the Expedition, has been furnished
the-pubic prints by some of the officers ell
gagged in it.
The Exploring Squalron sailed from the Uni
ted States on the 18th of August 1888, and has
been absent nearly four years. during which time
we learn hat the different vessels have sailed a.
bout four hundred thousand miles The EXpe-
dition has thoroughly executed every part OF the
duties confined to it by the government
ThepostionS assigned on the charts to seve-
raj vigias, reefs shoals, and islands, have been
ca a-efully looked for, run over and found to have
no existence in or near the places assigned them.
Several of the principal groups and islands in
9 the Pacific Ocean have been visited, cXa mined
and surveyed; friendly intercourse, and protec-
tive commercial regulations, established with the
chiefs and natives; aggress:ons on our citizens
and commerce redressed and justly merited
punishment meted out in some iaGrant cases of
unprovoked and cold blooded murder.
The discoveries in the Antarctic Ocean, CAN
tlrctic misunderstanding for fixing the
Southern Magnetic pole, &C., precededsthose OF
the French and English expeditions
The report which has been in circulation, of
Captain Ross having run over some portion of
the land discovered by this Expedition, is un-
founded. No land to the eastward of lG0S of
east longitude, was discovered, seen or claimed,
by the Expedition, as appears by Captain Wilkes
reportto the Navy Department, published in
lS40, after the return of the Squadron to New
Zealand. IF the statement originated with Cap
tain Ross, based upon the particular chart of the
Antarctic ice, and discoveries of land, with the
full explanatory letter which was furnished him
by Captain Wilkes (previous to Captain ERoss's
antarctic crnize,) he captain Ross) must have
taken that portion of land reported to have been
seen by Bellamy in, 1899, which was represent
longitude, or thereabouts, and which the Ameri-
can Expedition had never seen or heard of until
its return 10 Sidney, N. S. W., after their dis
coveries in the Antarctic Ocean.
Captain Ross, according to his report, has
never passed over, or gone SO far west, as 160
degrees east, in latitude 81 degrees south con-
sequently he could not have seen the land dis
5 covered and claimed by the American Exped-
: ton, but seems to have run over the position
where hand isreported to have been seen by his
own countrymanBelamy.
The Expedition, during its absence, have also
examined and surveyed a large portion of the
Oregon Territory, a part OF Upper California, in
Guiding the Columbia and Sacramento Rivers,
with their various tributaries. Several explor-
ing parties from the Squadron have explored, ex-
amined, and fixed those portions of the Oregon
Territory least known. A map of the: Territory,
embracing its Rivers Sounds, Harbors, Coasts
Forts, &c. has been prepared which will furnish
the government with a mss OF va uab,einforml-
tion relative to its possessions on the Northwest
Coast, and the whole of Oregon.
Experiments were mlde with the pendulum,
ION. 'Mouna Loa'' on the Island of Hawaii, one
of the Sandwich Islands, at height Of fourteen
sand feet above the level Oft the sea. Topogra-
phical surveys and views were made of some Of
its active and most extensive craters.
Experiments have been made with the pen
dulum magnetic apparatus, and various other in
struments, on all occasions-the temperature
of the ocean, at various depths, ascertained in
the different seas traversed, and full meterolo-
gical and other observations kept up during the
cruise. =
Charts Of all the surveys have been made,
with view and sketches of headlands, towns OF
ShioSCSs W., WIN uCoSi PLiuhS vi dii liidL
pertains tothe localities, productions, language,
customs andmanners.
At some of the Islands, this duty has been
attended with much labor, exposure and risk
.of life; the treacherous character of the natives
rendering it absolutely necessary that the Off
GERS and men should be armed while on duty,
and at all times prepared against their murder
GUS attacks. On several occasions, boats have
been absent from the different vessels of the
squadron, on surveying duty, (the greater por-
tiop of which has been performed in boats, }
; among islands, reefs, &c. for period of ten,
twenty, and thirty days at one time; on one OF
these occasions, two of the officers were killed
at the FIJI group, while defending their boats
crew from an attack by the natives
The scientific gentlemen have been actively
engaged in their various departments, and sub
ject to all the exposures incident to researches
among dangerous and hostile savagcs. Mr.
Hale,sthe -Philologist of the expedition. was
s:leftat the Columbia river for the purpose OF
PIosesuting his labors among the different tribes
the Oregon territory, and may be expected
home, overland, early in August.
Several islands not laid down in the charts
have been discovered, on one of which the ma.
tives offered worship, evidently believing that
their visitors had come from the sum- q.
= The Sooloo sea has been examined, several
Islands fouudto have been erroneously laid down
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