150 ELISHA KENT KANE. 



the daring exploits which formed the pastime of his 

 youth, to the graver tasks to which he brought his 

 developed manhood. Though born to ease and 

 elegance, when but a young student, used to acade- 

 mic tastes and honors, we see him breaking away 

 from the refinements of life into the rough paths of 

 privation and danger. Through distant and varied 

 regions we follow him in his pursuit of scientific 

 discovery and adventure. On the borders of China, 



within the unexplored depths of the crater of Luzon, 



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in India and Ceylon, in the islands of the Pacific, 

 by the sources of the Nile, amid the frowning 

 sphinxes of Egypt and the classic ruins of Greece, 

 along the fevered coast of Africa, on the embattled 

 plains of Mexico, we behold him everywhere blend- 

 ing the enthusiasm of the scholar with the daring 

 of the soldier and the research of the man of science. 

 The nation takes him to its heart with patriotic 

 pride. In hopeful fancy, a still brighter career is 

 pictured before him, when, alas ! the vision, while 

 yet it dazzles, dissolves in tears. We awake to the 

 sense of a loss which no contemporary at his age 

 could occasion."* 



* See Funeral Discourse delivered by Rev. Charles W. Shields, in 

 the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the occasion of Dr, 

 Kane's obsequies. 



