Litchfield enquirer., 1856-01-31

But that part of it which best reports his own personal agency. and would mos, just ly present the man to the reader. will of course be suppressed. Ne would gladly supply 1t, but as yet this is impossible to us. His journal is private property. the extracts which we may expect will be only too shy of egotism. and his companions have not spoken yet, as some day they will speak. of his conduct throughout the terri. ble struggles which together they endured. To form anything like an adequate esti- mate of this last achievement, it is to be recolected that his whole company amount ed to but twenty men, and that Of his corps or crew he was the commander. in naval pl.rase-and when we are sppsised that his portfolio of scenery. sketched on the spot in pencil, and in water colors kept fluid over a spirit-lamp, amounts to over three hundred sketches, We have a hint of the extent and variety of the offices he filled on this voyage. He was in fact the surgeon. sailing master, astronomer and as well as captain and leader of the expedition.
 This man of all work. and desperate da, ring and successful doing is in height about five feet seven inches-in weight. say one hundred and thirty pounds or so, if health and rest would but give him leave to fill up his natural measure. His complexion Is fair, his hair brown, and his eyes dark gray, with hawk look. He is hunter ny every gift and grace and instinct that makes up the character-dn excellent shot, and brilliant horse,naa He has escaped with whole bones from all his adventures, but he has several wounds which are trouhlesome-and, with such general health as his, most men would call themselves in- valids, and live on furlongh from all the active duties of life-yet he has won the distinction of being the first civilized man 10 stand in latitude 82o 30ninnies and gaze upon the open Polar Sea-to reach the point of land On the globe to report the lowest temperature ever en- dured-the heaviest sledge journeys ever performed-and the wiides. life that civil ized man has successfully undergone-and to return after all to tel the story of his ad- ventures.
 The secret spring of all this energy is in his religious enthusiasm-discovered alike in the generous spirit of his adventures in pursuit of science-in his enthusiastic fi- delity to duty, and in his heroic mainten- snce of the point of honor in all his in- ,ercourse with then.
 In his department there is that mixture Of shyncss and frankness, simplicity aud blended, which marks the man of genius, and the monk of industry. He seems confident n himself but not cf himseIf.- His manner is remarkable for celerity of alert at,entiveness, quickness Of rapidity of utterance and sen,rntious compac,ness of diction, which arise from habitual watchfuiness against the betrayal of his own enthusiasas. He seems to fear that he is boring you, and is always discovering his unwiilingness ito sit" for your admiration. If you question him about the handsome official acknowl- edgmcn,s of his services by the British and American governments. Of in any way enteavor to turn hin upon his own gallant achievements. he hurries you away from the subject to some point of scientific in- ,eres. which he presumes will more concern and engage yourself-or he says or does something that makes you think he is oc- cupird with his own inferiority iii some matter which your conversation presents to Lim. One Is obliged to struggle with him to maintain tine tone of respect which his character aud achievements deserve-and when the interview is over, a feeling of disappointment remains for the failure in your efforts to ransack the man as you .s... 4 n. sty. .t,..0~ n. s,h owed him.
 We wish we could be sure tha, he will not, in his forthcoming work. give us the drama without its hero-or we wish the expedition and it's hero had chronicler as worthy as hs would be were he not the principal character tn the story.
 Dr. Kane's Narrative of the Expedition, now preparing. and in process of pubIica. ton by Messrs. Childs & Peterson of Philadelphia. will entbface the important discoveries made in the frozen regions far beyond the reach of all the predecessors oi the American exploring party. and their perilous adventures, crowded with foman- tic incidents, which. in the language of the Secretary Of the Navy" not only excite our wonder, but borrow a novel grandeur from the truly benevolent considerations which animated aud nerved him 10 his task. VI
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