Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-07-05
BY C.CLEMENT.
An Interesting Observation-Disclosures
Adventures OF an American

An Interesting Observation-Disclosures
Adventures OF an American.
The following narrative of the wonderful adj
ventures of ayoung American, which we copy
from one the Philadelphia papers, viii be read
with interest:
Our readers have already been appraised, that
an arctic Expedition, intended to search for the
missing Sir John Franklin, has been fitted out
by the muniicence of Mr.. Grinnell, a New
York merchant, and has started under the aus
plces Of the General Government; which, by
authority of Congress, has consented that the
officers of our Navy shall lead the daring enter
prise. Among these officers, we observe the
name of Surgeon Elisha G. Kane son of Hon.
| John X. Kane, ofthis city, who volunteered for
the service, and is now principal surgeon of the
expedition. We saw the announcement of his
name among the officers with surprise He has
long been suffering from combination of mfr
mites, the result of series of adventures, such
as few men living have undergone, and such as
still fewer would voluntarily embark in out Of
pure love of danger, and the spirit of seeing the
wonders and the pecHliarities of the other parts
of the globe. Having enjoyed the acquaintance
OF this brave young man, we are able to state
what follows of his career, even if we should use
that which was communicated to us in sem-con-
tidential intervals. No American, of his age,
has ever seen SO much of the perils of the world,
or of the world itself. He was surgeon of the
American Legation TO China, and on his way to
the Celestial Regions, he spent some weeks on
a foot tramp through the orange groves of Bra
zil, and abouta monthin tiger hunting near Bonn
| bay. Hence, after dozen unsuccessful at
tempts to smuggle himself into the forbidden
lands OF China, he went over to Philippines, and
by the aid of the good Monks of the Interior of
Manila, explored its Businesses and volecnc
wonders.
He was the first man to descend into the great
crater of the Tael, lowered down two hundred
feet over the brink, by a bamboo rope tied round
his middle, and brought back bottle full of its
sulphur waters, burning off his boots in the la
va cinders. Leaving China, after a second Wis
it, in which he encountered shipwreck, he pass
ed to India as physician of the Dremandhar Da-
gore, and was palanquined for some three months
through the wonders of its mountain architec-
ture, the ancient glores Of Candy, the stupen-
duous passes of the Chant country, visiting Ma
dras, Pcndicherry, and every spot that we have
read of in the trial of Warren Hastings. Next,
to Upper Egypt and Abyssinia. crossing the de-
sert on his camel to the basis of Jupiter Ammon,
climbing at break-neck risk to the top-stone of
the sounding Colossus of Memnon, and eXplo-
ring the tombs of the Pharaohs for fortnight or
three weeks, with Professor Lepsius and his as
sociates. Wrecked again while passing down
the Nile, and wounded in an encounter near
Alexandria, he pushed across to Greece, and ira
versed every scene of classic interest, climbing
to the Hppocrene Spring, and sleeping on the
shore of Marathon. He returned by Italy,
France and England only to rest few weeks
before cruise on the coast of Africa. Renew
ing here some acquaintances which had been
in ~ W. al To hn
entire machinery of the slave trade, and to pass
up into the inteior, under the JGr7na7a of Desou-
sa the great intermediary between the chiefs OF
the slave-making districts and the Brazilian
carriers. The coast fever was his pay for this
trip, and he was sent home BY Commodore Read,
nvalided lmperfectly patched up from the eff
ects of this visitation, he volunteered for service
with the army in Mexico and was ordered, with
dispatches on a daredevil race, through the
country our troops had left, to overtake General
Scott. Awaiting himself at Perote, of miscre
ant escort of Jail birds, that Gen. Worth had en-
ployed as spy company, he got into series of
fights, in the last of which he recevedthe swords
of Gen. Gaona and Gen. Torreion, and had his
horse killed under him, and was himself despe-
raely wounded, whilst protecting the lives of his
prisoners against his own men. Since then he
has been cruising and practising photography on
the coast survey, up to the moment OF receiving
his Geographic despatch, accepting his urgent
proffer of services for the Arctic Expedition
He had the rice fever in the Canton river, the
plague in Egypt, the yellow fever at Rio, the
congestive at Puebla, and the African fever on
the coast These, and wounds, and an organic
disease of the heart, which he has had from boy
hood, have been his preparations for tho hazards
he is encountering now.
Altogether his history is eventful and thrilling
for so young man, and induces us cordially to-
hope that he may return from his last adventure
with new honors and a restored constitution.