CHAPTER XXII. 



DEA*H OF DR. E. K. KANE. DR. HAYES' EXPEDITION. DELIVERY OF 

 LECTURES ON THE SUBJECT. DEPARTURE OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 AMONG THE ICEBERGS. A SUBLIME SIGHT AND A NARROW ESCAPE. 

 WINTER AT PORT FOULKB. SLEDGE TRAVELING TO GRINNELL LAND. 

 REACHES MOUNT PARRY AND CAPE UNION. RETURNS TO BOSTON. 



ON the 16th of February, 1857, at Havana, died Elisha 

 Kent Kane, M.D., aged only thirty-seven years. The 

 hardships and vicissitudes of his Arctic experience, 

 while they failed to aifect his vigorous spirits or daunt 

 his unfaltering courage, had completely shattered his phys- 

 ical health, which had never been robust. 



Though he died young, he left a record his country will 

 ever be proud of, having achieved a noble fame, not only 

 as a great navigator and explorer, but as a true hero, a 

 good man, faithful and straightforward in the discharge of 

 every duty, and courteous and dignified in his intercourse 

 with his peers and his subordinates. 



In the narrative of Dr. Kane's travels, given earlier in 

 this volume, will be found the name of Dr. Hayes, the 

 surgeon of his expedition, and one of his most intrepid 

 (X)mpanions. Dr. Hayes had shared In all of Dr. Kane's 

 adventures, had experienced all the trials and perils of 

 navigation in the Arctic region; but the intense cold of 

 the far North had not chilled his ardor, nor had the ice- 

 fields and floes "nipped" his courage. 



We quote, by way of introducing a brief notice of Dr. 

 Hayes' expedition, from the doctor's own interesting nar- 

 rative : " The plan of the enterprise first suggested itself 

 to me while acting as surgeon of the expedition commanded 



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