New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-22
THE HASSLER EXPEDITION.
SURVEYING sHOALs-A POLITICAL DIVERSION
ARRIVAL AT ACAPULCO.

SURVEYING sHOALs-A POLITICAL DIVERSION NJ
ARRIVAL AT ACAPULCO.
rPRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNEG
U. S. STEAMER HAssLER, Aug. 5.-We left
Panama on the oath ult and spent large part OF the
day in searching for rocks said to lie in certain
position apparent at high tide. We coud not find them
even at low tide and passed TO the shoal which the
English ship Tartar struck in 1863 but which has never
been surveyed. We found it on the LIST Of August,
and spent three days in making preliminary sur
vey and chart There is scarcely any tide at that point
and the great body of the shoal has five or six fathos
OF water upon It, but there are also several places In
which there is but little three fahoms, and it was
upon one Of these that the Tartar struck The shoal lies
directly in the track Of the coasting vessels ana the
work which the Hasser did In those three days will be
positive gift OF value TO the navigators on this
coast and through them, 10 the civilized world.
While the officers Of tho vessel we're thus engaged.
amused myself with watching the birds and fish, the
waterspouts and thunder-stor that passed u.s.
Four gannets outdid the gigantic petrol Of COnnors
Cove I'm their imitation OF Col scots We did not
SO much as point gun toward them but the
ship anchored and the boats began to plant buoys
and survey the water these gannets into the boats
and the ship and allowed themselves to be taken with
the hands, without resistance. They were killed
and skinned, ready for stuffng and mounting One
was even so oblidng as 20 disgorge some
beautiful little fish, just swallowed that
the Professor might put them in alcohol also found
amusement in reading, and among other things read
few of Chamissos letters One of them contains song
so amusing that have tried 70 transfer its playuness
TO English rhyme To understand IT, II is only necessary
to remember that Chamisso favorite with the scien
tc men and explorers his day and several times
compmented by having bugs, and plants, and Islands
named for him; also that Schemhl was poor smtless
fellow terribly unfortunate the hero OF tale by Cha
misso. so popular that every devil was called
schlernihl
Who gave a Carabus 10 me,
Yet left it by the Alaskan Seal
Twas Dr. Eschsoholz' gift so nice;
IT'S he dispenses bugs and lice.
He gave that Carabus 70 me,
Vet left 1t by t9e Alaskan Sea.
who gave me out OF rich Peru
As cheap q weed as ever grew
That youngster Kunth, without qualm
Gave Aohyranthes, not palm;
He gave me out of rich Peru
As cheap weed as ever grew.
Who gave me, in the Polar Seas,
!, A pills of rocks where brandy d freeEei
Twas Kotzebue. who divide,
As he secs 1T, the land and tide;
He gave inc, In the Polar Seas,
A pile of rocks where brandy d freeze
Those Polar rocks are no soft bed.
And Achyranthes Is not bread,
Alaskan bugs no gold dsburse,
MY heart Is heayy--net my PURSE
Those Polar rocks are no soft bed.
Aud Achyranthes Is not bread
Ali would some chap TO me award,
Tor King, or Emperor, Duke or loru1
Full honOrs payable IN gold
In monthly payments duly told
An that would be the chap for me.
Or King Emperor his degree.
But no man. no man'thinks of that
A Scbenhls always a poor rat
Aud i, the father OF the race
Must with their poverty keep pace;
No man, no man thinks Of that
..f .. sehlemihl's always poor eat
Yesterday came W Acapulco, just III time for the
boat " Ban Francisco