Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-15
LIEUT.. STRAIN AND HIS PARTY
PROM rnE PANAMA STAR OF xAro 20

FROM THE PANAMA STAR OF NARoI1o'
With the greatest satisfaction we h, snsu yeS.fass
briefly to announce to readers, in 'neo', 'no
receipt Of the highly gratifying .ha' Lieut.
STRAIN and his party were alive '' @uu % po.''0A
of them had arrived on the Paac coast no now pro-
i 800 !. a.h .au.;.u,.l as we have been able to
gatb.r ron ,s two elligent persons who brought
4 the news to the city.
i From ,bsm =. that, about sixteen days ago. Lieut.
strain occomnoed by only two of his men, arrived at
Chapoana II rch of provisions and boats for the relief
Of the baa Of his party whom he had left four weeks
before banks Of the Chucanaque river Learning
that VI Bennett had ample supply Of provisions at the
det at the junction Of the Savanna and Lara rivers, no
orthwh proceeded there and obtaining the necessary
supplies FASTENED back
Our informant and conversed with Lieut. Strain on
his first arrival at Chapgana and gave him the nforma
ton that Mr. Bennett had provisions, but did not see
Lieut. s. again, that gentleman his return down
the Savanna river, from the depot while our informant
was going up but, in the conversation he had with
Lieut. g. he learned that he and his had been forty
days in getting from the Atlantic Point Yaviss near
the outlet Of the Chucanaque river the Pacific that
after being out fifteen days from the Atlantic, their pro-
visions became entirely exhausted after which they had
to subsst principally upon the nut Of the ta species
Of the palm. The nineteen left by Lieut.. Strain on
the Chucanaque mostly disabled from sickness and
debility. The suferings of the whole party must have
been intense, especially those Of Lieut. g. and bis two
companions who in their weakened and nearly exhausted
state had their way for four weeks down the banks
Of the Chucanaque river.
Lieut. Strain reports that the Indians inhabtng tho
which he travelled always fed on his approach,
first setting fra to the ranches huts destroying their
canoes and carrying of all stock and provisions AT one
Of their settlements he found the remains Of not less than
five canoes.
On Thursday evening, 10Th instant the British steamer
Virago arrived ut the mouth of the Savanna and Capt
Marshal Immediately dispatched boat up the river to
communicate with Mr. Bennett who during the night
down the Vrago and communicated the intelligence
of Lieut. Strains arrival and departure from the depot
the morning of the 18th Captain Marshall dispatched
Of his largest boats to the Chuanque to render such
aid and assistance to Lieut. Strain he might require
in the recovery Of his The two who accom-
panied Lieut. Strain the depot left there SICK so
that he started his return unacoompanied by single
man of his original party.
That sthe whole party, even portion of it, is safe
is most welcome indeed; and we momentarily
looking for the Virago here with them We shall hail
their arrival in city with unbounded joy.
In addition to the foregoing which copy from the
Star OF Sunday, have learnt few additional particu
lars from ST. Anje Sucre very intelligent native landed
proprietor who resides at Santa Maria between Chapi
CANA and Yavisa He Lieut.. Strain, and took him
his house. where he gave him clothes and food Hede
scrbes the Lieutenant almost to skeleton, per-
fecy Naked and his body covered with from the in
sects that penetrated the skin.
Lieut. Strain told him that when fifteen days out they
met four Indians who spoke Engsh and who agreed to
pilot them back to the Atlantic; after two days march
through the mountains the Indians deserted them during
the night. aat
Two of the four men who accompanied Lieut.. Strain
When ST. Sucre left Yavsa the 18th the boat of the
Virago there and large number Of canoes were
about starting the river the relief Of the rest of the
party The natives lent every assistance in their power