Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-05-13
Or. Kane and the Grlnnell E.pea,,,o,.

0et'alhly no man OF the age has graduated in such
course OF preparatory discipline as he TO whom is
' Inc search for the long-Io navigator
ne mas laken ms diploma in the college of dangers
In Ine pref enumeration OF his studies, we find him
lramping Tor several weeks on foot through lie ar
ange groves OF Brazil then for month chasing the
Tiger near Bombay then surgeon of the American
iegauon 70 Chlna where, after numerous unayailinp
10 penetrate the forbidden portions of the
Ceiesta regions, he goes to the Philippines and suc
ceeds, through the good Offices of the monks Of the
interior OF MANILA in visiting its Businesses and ex
plorIng ITS vocanc wonder; then with bamboo cord
around ms waist descending two hundred feet below
the brink, INTO the great crater Tae returning with a
oo''ie OF us sulphur waters and leaving his crisped
boots amid lis clnders and lava then again visiting
Chna and encounterlng shipwreck, he passes to In
dla as physician of the Dremendhar Daeore and for
three months from his palanqGn looks out upon the
gorles OF mat country which displays in prodgalty
lis physical wonders, and gather around the most ro
manic associations; then we trace him in Upper Esypt
and AbyssnIa, imprntEg the footsteps of the camel
on the shifting sands, traversng the Sahara TO the
base oil Jupiter Ammon: at the imminent risk of life
applying his ears to the lips of Memnon, that speak
their morning words high in the clouds; for several
weeks with Professor Lepsus, disturbing the ancient
dust OF the Pharaohs; again wrecked as he descends
the Nile wounded IN combat near Alexandria then
hunting out each scene of interest in classic Greece
and sleeping under the sky that arches the shore of
Marathon then whirling through Italy, France, and
d.
avais himself of his Brazilian acquaintance and is
permitted 10 penetrate the interior and examine the
whole machinery of the slave trade then fighting
with the coast fever, and, though coming off conquer
or, yet so disabled 10 be obliged 10 return home an
invalid then volunteering for Mexico, carrying des
patches TO General Scott in mad race through the
country troops had left at Perote, obtaining an
escort OF mlscreant spy company, and becoming in
volved in series Of fights he received the swords of
General Gaona and General Torrejon had his horse
killed under him. and was himself desperately wound
ed in protecting the lives of his prisoners against his
own men: then engaged in photographic service on
the coast survey then. surgeon of the expedition
IN search of Sir John Franklin, spending a long and
dismal winter on the frozen waters of the popular
seas; then returning, amidst the congratulations of
his counrymen, he descends from the altitude of an
iceberg to the heat of the lecture room lays before
the people the results of his northern investigations
and now we see him, thus famiIiariZed with every
peril and accmated in every region having success
fully struggled with the rice fever in the Canton river
with the plague in Egypt, with the yellow fever at
Rio, with the congestive at Puebla, with the African
lever on the coast, with organic disease of the
heart which has from boyhood been assang the Cit
adel OF his life with dangerous wounds. Thus discp-
lined and accredited, we the young, slender and
plastic American under the aid of benevoence that
stretches beyond home and country, freighting his
stout ship, now in our hal Dor, with the implements
and means of subsistence which necessary enable
him to undertake second and novel expedition, TO
fnd if il be possible, amidst the ices of the POLE the
form, living dead of that gallant explorer whose
unknown fate attracts the liveest interest of the ma
tions.-Neav York Times.