The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-12
Wonderful Adventures of Young American.

The following narrative of the won
derful adventures of young American,
which we copy from Philadelphia pa
per, will be read with interest Our
readers have already been apprized that
an Artic Expedition, intended to search
for the missing Sir John Franklin, has
been fitted ont by the munifcence of MIR.
Griunell. a New ork merchant, and has
started under the auspices of the general
Government; which, by authority of Con
gress, has consented that the officers of
our Navy shall lead the daring enterprise.
Among these officers we observe the name
of Surgeon Elisha C.. Kane, son of Hon.
John K. Kane, of this city, who voiun-
teered for the service, and is now princi-
pal Surgeon of the expedition. We saw
the announcement of his name among the
officers with surprise. He has long been
suffering from combination of infrmities,
the result of a series Of adventures such
as few men living have undergone, and
such as still fewer would voluntarily EN-
bark in out of pure love of danger, and
the spirit OF seeing the wonders and the
pecullArities Of other parts of the globe
Having enjoyed the acquaintance of this
DAI'@ fcAaAiS iAtllis :" diC cDlG ~ StltE
what follows OF his career, even if we
should use that which was communicated
to Us in semi-coniden!ial intervals. no
American, of his age, has seen so much
OF the Perits 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 ioot-tramp through the orange groves
of Brazil, and about a month in tiger
hunt ne near Bombay. Hence, after do zen
unsuccessful attempts TO smuggle himself
into the forbidden lands of China, he
went over to the Philippines, and by the
aid Of the good Monks of the interior of
Manila, explored lis Businesses and yolca-
nlc wonders. He was the first man to
descend into the great crater of the Tael,
lowered down two hundred feet over the
brink, by bamboo rope tied round his
middle, and brought back a bottle full of
It's sulpbGT water, burning off his boots in
the lava cinders. Leaving China, after a
second visit, in which he encountered
shipwfeck, he passed to India as physi- !
clan OF the Dremandnar Dagore, and was
palanquined for some three months thro'
the wonders of It's mountain architecture.
the ancient glores of Candy, the stipend /
Gus passes of the Ghaut country, visiting
Madras, Pondicherry, and every spot that /!
we have read of in the trial of Warren
Hastings. Next, to Upper Egypt and !
A5ysinnia, crossing the desert on his
camel, TO the basis of Jupiter Ammon, /
climbing, at break-neck risk, to The top
stone of the sounding Colossus of Mem (
non, and exploring The tombs of the Pha-
roahs Tor a fortnight or three weeks, with
Professor Lepsus and his associates .
Wrecked again while passing down the /
Nile, and wounded IN an encounter near
he pushed across 10 Greece, !
and tr,versed every scene of classic inter /
est, climbing to the Hippocrene Spring, |
and sleeping on the shore of Marathon
He returned by Italy, France and Eng
land, only TO rest q few weeks before
cruise on the coast Of Africa Renewing /
here some acquainiances which had been /
formed in Brazil, he was allowed to in /
spect the entire machinery of the slave |
trade, and 10 pass up into the interior un- |
der the .tirna0n Desousa, the great inter- |
medary between the chiefs of the slave
making districts and the Brazilian carriers.
coast fever was his pay for this trip,
and he was sent home by Commodore
Read, invalided. Imperfecay patched up
from the effects of this visitation, he vol
unteered for service with the army in
Mexico, and was ordered. with despatch |
es, on daredevil race through the coun |
try our troops had left, 10 oyertake Gen. 1
Scott. Awaiting himself at Perote, of |
escort Of jail-birds, that General
Worth had employed as u spy company,
he got into a series of fights, in the last of
which he received the swords of General
Gaona and General Torrejon, and had his
horse killed under him, and was himself !
desperately wounded, whilst protecting
the lives of his prisoners against his own
men. Since then he has been cruising
and practisin. photography on the coast
survey, up TO the moment of receiving his
telegra pine despatch. accepting his urgent
proher of services for the Artic Expedl-
ton. He had the rice fever in the Canton
river, the plague in Egypt, the yellow fe-
yer at Rio, the congesive al Puebla, and
the African fever on the coast. These,
and wounds, and an organic disease of
heart, which he has had from boy bood,
have been his preparations for the hazards
he is encounterine now. Altogether his
history is eventfu and thrilling for so
young man, and induces US cordially to
hope that he may return from his last adj
ventures with new honors and restored
constitution.