Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-03

INTERESTING SKETCH.-Doctor Kane, already
known as one Of the heroes who sailed in search
of Sir John Franklin with Mr.. GrinnePs Expe-
the following account of it, up to hiss departure
upon the Arctic Expedition, shows. We have not
recently encountered any narrative so thrilling
Why may we not hope for book from DIR. Kane,
comprising his remarkable experience?
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 foot-tramp through the
orange groves of Brazil, and about a month in ii
ger-hunting near Bombay. Hence, after dozen
unsuccessful attempts to smuggle himself into the
forbidden lands OF China he went over to the
philippines, aud by the aid of the good Monks of
the interior of Manila, explored its Businesses
and volcanic wonders He was the first man to
descend into the great crater of the Tael lowered
down two hundred feet oyerthe brink by bamboo
rope tied round his middle, and brought back bot
tletul OF its sulphur waters burning off his boots
in the lava cinders.
Leaving China, after second visit, in which he
encountered shipwrecks, he passed to India as
physician OF the Dremendhar Dagore, and was
palanquined for some three months through the
wonders OF It's mountains architecture, the ancient
glo1es OF Candy, the stupendous passes of the
Ghaut country, visiting Madras, Pondchery, and
every spot that we have read of in the trial of War
rem Hastings. Next, to Upper Egypt and Abyss
slnla, crossing the desert his camel to the basis
OF Jupiter Ammon, climbing at breakneck risk to
the topstone of the sounding COLOSSUS of Memnon,
and exploring the tombs of the Pharaohs for a
fortnight or three weeks, with Prof. Lepsius and
his associates. 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 on
ly to rest few weeks before cruise on the coast
OF Africa. Renewing here some acquaintances
which had been formed in Brazil, he was al
lowed to inspect tho entire machinery of the
slave trade, and to pass up in the interior under
the frn'an OF Desouza, 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 an invalid. Imperfectly patch
ed up from the effects of this visitation he volun-
teered FOR service with the army in Mexico, and
was ordered with dispatches, on a dare devil
race through the country our troops had left to
overtake Gen. Scott.
Awaiting himself, at Perote of miscreant es
cort OF jailbrds, that Gen. Worth had employed
as spy company, he got into series of fights,
IN the last of which he received the swords of
General Gaona and General Torreion, and had his
horse killed under him, and was himself despe-
rately wounded, while 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 dispatch, accepting his urgent pro
fer of services for the Arctic Expedition. He
had the rice feverin the Canton river, the plague
in Egypt, the yellow fever at Rio the congesfive
at Puebla and the African fever on the coast
These and wounds, and an organic disease of the
heart which he has had from boyhood, have been
his preparations for the hazards he has encoun
tered.