Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-24
AN INTERESTING STORY.

DR.. Kane, already widely known as one of the he
roes who saiied in search of Sir John franklin with
MT. Grlnnell's 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 thrill
ing. ny may we not hope fora book from DIR.
Kane, comprising his remarkable experience -..:
No American, of his age, has ever seen so much
OF the Pers OF the world, or of tire world ITSELF He
was Surgeon of the American Legation to China,
and on MS way TO- the Celestial regions, he spent
some weeks on toottramp through the orange groves
of Brazil, and about month in tiger-hunt;ng near
Bombay. Hence, after dozen unsuccessful attempts
to smuggle himself in the forbidden lands of China
he went over 10 the Philippines, and by the aid OF
the good Monks of the interior of ManiIla explored
It's businesses and yocaRc wonders. He was the .st
man 10 descend into the great of the Tael low
cred down two hundred feet the brink by
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 he encountered shipwreck, he
passed to India as physician of the DremenGhar Da-
gore, and was palanqalned for some three months
through the wonders ofits mountain architecture the
ancient glores Of Candy, the stupendous passes of
the Ghaut country, visiting Madras, Pondcherry,
and every spot that have read of in the trial of
Warren Hastings. Next, to Upper Egypt, and Abyss
slnla, crossing the desert bis camel the basis of
Jupiter Amnon, climbing at break-neck risk to the
topstone of the sounding Colossus of Memnon, and
exploring the tombs of Pharaohs for fortnight
three weeks, with Prot Lepsus and his associates
Wrecked again while passing down the Nile, and
wounded, in an encounter Alexandria, he pushed
to Greece and traversed every Of classic
interest, climbing to the Hippocrene Spring, and
sleeping on the shore of Marathon He returned by
Italy, France, and England, only few weeks,
before a cruise on the coasts of Africa. Renewing
here some acquaintance which had been formed in
Brazil, he allowed inspect the entire machine
of the slavetade and pass into the interior,
under the rn1an Of Desouza, the great Intermediary
between the chiefs of the slave-making districts and
the Brazilian carriers. The fever was his pay
for this trip, and he was sent home by Commodore
Read, invaded. Imperfectly patched up from the
effects CT this visitation, he volunteered for service
with the army in Mexico, and ordered, with dis
patches, daredevil race, through the country
troops had left, to overtake Gen. Scott. Awaiting
himself, at Perote, of miscreant of ja-brds,
that Gen. Worth had employed a spy company,
he got into series of fights in the last of which he
received the swords of Gen. Gaona and Gen. Tore
jon. and had his horse killed under him, and was
himself desperately wounded, while protecting the
lives of his prisoners against his Since
then he has been cruising, and practising hydrogra-
ply on the Coast Survey, up TO the moment of re-
ceiving his Geographic dispatch, accepting his urgent
profer of services for the Arctic Expedition. HI had
the rice fever in the Canton River, the plague of
Egypt, the yellow fever at Rio. the congestive at
Puebla, and the African fever the coast. These
and wounds, and organic disease of the heart
which he has had from boyhood, have been his prepa
ratlons for the hazards he is encountering now.