Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-04-13
AN INTERESTING STORY.

DR.. Kane. already known as one OF the be-
roes who sailed in search Of Sir John Frank
lin with Mr. Grinnefs Expedition, led life
Of unexampled adventure. as the following
account Of it, up to his departure upon the
Arctic expedition, shows. We have not
recently encountered any narrative SO thrill
ing Why may we not hope for book from
DR.. Kane, comprising his remarkable expe-
Renee?
No American, Of bis age, has ever seen SO
much of the perils Of the world. or Of the
world itself He was Surgeon Of the Amer
lean Legation to China, and on bis way to
the Celestialregious be spent some weeks on
foot tramp through the orange groves of
Brazil, and about month in tiger bunting
near Bombay. Hence after dozen unsuc
eessful 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 its fast
ncsses aud volcanic wonders He was the
first man to descend iuto the great crater of
Tael. lowered down two hundred feet over
the brink by the bamboo rope tied round his
middle, and brought back bottle full of its
sulphur waters, burning off his boots in the
lava cinders. Leaving China after second
visit, in which be encountered shipwreck, be
passed to India as physician Of the Dremend-
har Dagore, and was palanquined for some
three months through the wonders Of its
mountain architecture the ancient glories of
Candy, the stupenduous passes of the Ghaut
country, visiting Madras, Pondicherry. and eve-
ry spot that we haveread ofiu the trial of War
rem Hastings Next. to Upper Egypt and
Abyssinia crossing the desert on his camel
to the basis of stone of the sounding Cellos-
sus of Nlemnen. and exploring the tombs of
the Pharoahs for fortnight or three weeks,
with Professor Lepsius and his associates
Wrecked again while passing down the Nile,
and wounded in an encounter near Alexan-
dria, he pushed across to Greece, ard travel
ed every scene Of classic interest climbing to
the Hippocrene Spring, and sleeping on the
shore of Marathon. He returned BY Italy,
France, and England, only to rest a few
weeks, before cruise on on the coast of At
riea Renewing there some acquaintance
which had been formed in Brazil. he was al
lowed to inspect the entire machinery of the
slave trade, and to pass up into the interior
uuder the frman of Dcsouza, the intermedi.
airy 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 invalid.
ed lmperfccty patched up from the effetts
of this visitation, be volunteered for service
with the army in Mexico and was ordered,
with dispatches. on a dare Trace, through
the country our troops had lett, to overtake
Gen Scott. Awaiting himself. at Peroie, of
a miscreant escort ofjail- birds, that Gen.
Worth had employed as spy company. he
got into a series Of fights. in the last of which
he received the swords of Gen. Gaona and
Gan. Torrejon. and had bis horse killed uu-
der him, aud was himself desperately wound
ed, while protecting the lives Of his prison
ers against his own men. Since then he has
been cruising and practieing photography on
the Coast Survey, up to the moment of re-
ceiving bis Geographic despatch, accepting
bis urgent proifer of services for the Arctic
Expedition. He had the rice fever in the
Canton River, the plague in Egypt, the yell
low 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 bad from boyhood. have
been his preparations for The hazards be is
encountcrlng now