Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-07-02

DR.. KANE AND THE GRINNELL Elk.
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ted in such course of preparatory dsci-
pline as he 10 whom is now entrusted the
search for the long lost navigator. He has
taken his diploma in The College Of Dangers.
In the brief enumeration of his studies, we
find him tramping for several weeks on
foot, through the orange-groves Of Brazil :
then Tor month, chasing the tiger near
Bombay then, surgeon Of the American
Legation to China, where, after numerous
unavailng endeavors to penetrate the lor-
hidden portions of the Celestial regions, be
goes TO the PHILIPPINES, aud succeeds
through the good Offices of the monks of the
interior of Manila, in visiting its Businesses
and exploring its volcanic wonders then,
with bamboo cord around his waist, de-
scending two hundred feet below the brink,
into the great crater of Tael, returning
with bottle of its sulphur waters, and lea
wing his crisped boots amid its cinders and
lava; then again, visiting China and en-
countering shipwreck, he passes TO India
as physician Of the Dremendhar Dagore,
and for three months, from his palanquin,
looks oul upon the glories of that country
which displays, in prodigiality, its physical
wonders, and gathers around it the most
romantic associations; then, we trace him
in Upper Egypt and Abyssinia, imprinting
the temporary footsteps of the camel on the
shifting sands, traversing the Sahara to The
base OF Jupiter Ammon-at the imminent
risk Of life, applying his ear 10 the lips of
Memnon, that speak their morning words
high in the clouds--for several weeks with
Professor Lepsins, disturbing the ancient
dust Of the Pharoahs 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
shores of Marathon--then whirling through
Italy, France and EngIand-cruising on
the coast of Africa, he avais himself of his
BRAZILIAN acquaintance, and is permitted
10 penetrate the interior and examine the
whole machinery of the slave trade-,hen
fighting with the coast fever, and though
coming off conqueror, yet so disabled as to
be obliged 10 return home an invalid--then
volunteering for Mexico, carrying des-
patches to Gen. Scott in a mad race through
the country out troops had left at Perote
obtaining an escort OF a miscreant spy
company, and becoming involved in Sc
rles Of fights, he received the swords of
Gen. Gaona and Gen. Torreion; had his
horse killed under him, and was himself
desperately wounded in protecting the
lives OF prisoners against his own men
then engaged in photographic service on
the Coast Survey-then as Surgeon of the
expedition in search OF Sir John Franklin;
spending long and dismal winter on the
frozen waters of the Polar Sea-thrn re-
turning amidst the congratulations of his
countrymen, he descends from the attitude
OF an iceberg 10 the heat of the lecture
room, and lays before the people the results
of bis northern investigations-and we
now see him thus familiarized with every
peril and acclimated in every region
having successfully 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 fever on the coast, with an organic
disease of the heart, which has from boy
hood been assaiirg the citidal Of lie, with
dangerous wounds. Thus disciplined and
accredited, we see this young, slender and
plastic American, under aid OF benevo-
lence that stretches beyond home and coun-
try, freighting his stout ship in our harbor,
with the implements and means of subsis-
tence which are necessary, to enable him
to undertake second and novel expedition,
to find, if it be possible, amidst the ices oil
the Pole, the form, living or dead, OF that
gallant Explorer whose unknown fate at
tracts The llveiest interest OF the nations.
Filled with wonders are those dominions
OF the North. With what interest the eye
runs over the map lines which set apart
those mystic boundaries of snow and ice,
and impenetrabe Winter. Granoer and
more sublime, are those formidable masse:
OF snow, the weird glimmerng of the long
twilight, the stretched out night, the elec.
trio flashes that dart 10 the zenith ant
counterfeit the day, than the gardens of the
world, where Oriental sunshine, fruits anc
flowers, and the gorgeous exuberance O
Natures vegetation, lu!l and sootbe OH,
dreary senses into pleasing inertness.-
The Imagination bounds with new vigor
and seeks to pierce the untrodden region
the home Of the Borealis- around which
the glittering battlements of ice stretch lhei
efectual guard. There is rich music tc
the ear OF the adventurous in the wild wal
OF those mournful, frozen seas, those whirl
ing snow-drifts, that cracking, crumblin,
ice that holds him momently on the preci
pice oi danger; and there is beauty 10 hi
eye In the varying hues that noun
strangely and fitfully in the aurora of tn
Northern zone, and fling their radianc
Ger the dazzling minarets that shoot int
the sky.
So long as there may remain one leaf O
the vast volume OF nature TO be turne
over, whether il be in the craters of he
volcanoes or on the summit of her glaciers
whether in festive moments she lies in smi
ling beauty, or flowers in verdure, or wrar
herself in impervious snow mantles. an
leaning her face against the clouds biddin
defiance TO the scrutiny of eighteen cent?
ries--so long and there, will restless explc
rers take themselves, and spurred by inc
tives OF fame, Of curiosity, or OF beneve
lence, boldly knock at her most cherishe
secrets.
, In these Artic explorations, dange
come thick and imminent. Columbus ba,
tised his brow 10 the waving influences
J a genial sea. But in the Central Nortl