New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-05

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The Liverpool Post publishes The following letter.
Fritsen BY Capt cablns, of tbs cs<iboa, keIoaasu3
70 Liverpool, 70 the Secretary of ~ AdthirasS. -
ss'ng 70 cluster Of islands not lid down IN ths
enarn and which lie in The direct track to AuxsII..
me attention Of The owners and masters q 49,
onen1 70 Be called % he subject - many ssselu 4
wnlen no t'dlnss have been heard may havs kss4
ailed from Liverpool on lie sEs 0oceotS- 76F4
pound 70 Port Phillip, Ia Australia Fskrr2rv al
VINO westerly, brsk gale with xnov sou9I71 e i>3
a ~ ~ eleat between the sqaaIIs, hncied ~
ened sail, and stood toward 4 M 5 n <,.<-
70 abreast the Island with tho center 6er{1s q r q
atont IL miles, lowered lie hosf and 1su1f ~ ~
the land i afierward stood in % about mi7rs ~
The island appeared to be In 8 T. and n W
direction. eb0nt rs miles, its southern exfrr,,c l.,
ing 70 The s W. forming deep blight On IL western
slae. which was entirely snowclad, and 81ve II ths
appearance Of great barrier Of ice.
The greater part Of the whole island was co<cr.d
with snow there was remarkable erDup Of tjoh
rocks lying on 70 the NJ T. from tho s. e. part of ~
,sland 81 apparently sx or seven miles, snd On Tia n
cloud capped but think that ifs greatest eIs91foS
could not be Ies than $50 feet above ne level n ~
sea. While hoye-to awaiting oar boats retarn ~
hsonlsned % zee vessels a anchor in by " hsv
p = !. y
them got onder weigh and stood toward lE: 4 r9oysx
~ ~ De tne American schooner Oxford u fotErrrr
Iney pat out boat, and the master ens1e - hSn6
ne tofd me they called Il Kurds Island an6 zlr7 n
va discovered y them eighteen monfhs bels5s- n
seemed annoyed that my boat had LANDED. snf ~
vised me 70 go and leave her hehipd ~vi-~ -
would never return; but told MIN wo1]f 5e~-r
ieaVe her while had another boat "a de<r ~ -
mas very anxious, Tor II wns then uurfo1r~ 11rS
darkness coming on fast hut, uhilo soeskiox ~
lookout af the masthead reported he bat IL sehe
He then became more commnpicafiva 80 <<,73 -.
they were sfter oil. that the ahorer ~ ~ is7s-7
svarmed with sea elephants, aud ttsf fhey bsd -
900 barrels of OIL "A 80 - ~
The island was bold on the NJ 3. side. snd Is ~
den dangers; and the bay where shey Isy un5 lne
bay Or natural harbor with good anshofa6e- 10
sunken dangers-wth twelve to twenty lsthom ~
over, and sheltered from all winds exnep{ 1orfi-
eastery with hne river OF fresh water sf the hdn
OF H. lie also told me that there was another fns1
west o. kurds, distance some thirty niles and auo1h
D. 3 e., seventy miles, both of which be had scsn'
nnt never landed on NY own cd1cem thst Wsr6
pfnnts and, the island being well watered. thu1
we're pengnins and other birds In myrfads, and %
an Island about mile apart from the main, Il -
peared to be great mound OF euano WbfIe Mine
70, went to look at my abstract, and Il made ~
shudder TO think that, only twelve months before
wind not more than four or iiSe miles dslSnf, cno
rant OF its existence. Ny greatest wish on sendine
my boat TO the island, to find out f there verS
any shipwrecked persons on II whom might relieve
send, inciosed with this, sketch Of TIN island is
the execution of which was very much assisted by
one o. the passengers. Il was entirely Of volcanic
origin, my SIX officers having found tie snrface ashea
and stone, like the specimen incloeed- mads ti1e
northern extreme Of the island IN lat IS 81 lon IS
e. good cbronometersn 3