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BIBLIOGEAPHY OF THE 



Wilkes (C.) — Continued. 



I have seeu mention of "a nnw eilition," 

 New York, 185G. 



Charles "Wilkes, naval officer, born iu New 

 York City, xVpril 3, 179S, died iu Washington, 

 D.C., February 8, 1877. Ho entered the navy 

 as a midshipman January 1, 1818, and was pro- 

 moted to lieutenant, April 28, 1826. He was 

 appointed to the department of charts and 

 instruments in 1830 and was the first iu the 

 United States to set up fixed astronomical in- 

 struments and observe with them. On August 

 18, 1838, hesailed from Norfolk, Va., in command 

 of a squadron of five vessels and a storeship, to 

 explore the southern seas. He visited Madeira, 

 the Cape Verde Islands, Eio do Janeiro, Ti- 

 erra del Fuego, Valparaiso, Callao, the Pau- 

 motou group, Tahiti, the Samoan gi'ou)) (which 

 ho surveyed and explored), Wallis Island, and 

 Sydney in New South Wales. He left Sydney 

 ip December, 1839, and discovered what he 

 thought to be an Antarctic continent, sailing 

 along vast ice fields for several weeks. In 1840 

 ho thoroughly explored the Fiji group and 

 visited tlio Hawaiian Islands, where ho meas- 

 ured intensity of gravity by means of the pen- 

 dulum on the summit of Mauna Loa. In 1841 

 he visited the northwestern coast of America 

 and Columbia .and Sacramento rivers, and on 

 November 1 sot sail from San Francisco, visited 

 Manila, Sooloo, Borneo, Singiipore, the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and St. Helena, and cast anchor at 

 New York on Juno 10, 1842. Chiirges preferred 

 against him by some of his officers were investi- 

 gated by a court-marti.al, .and he was acquitted 

 of all except illegally punishing some of his 

 crew, for which he was reprimanded. He ser\ed 

 on the coast survey iu lS42-'43, was promoted to 

 commander July 13, 1843, .and employed in cou- 

 uection witli the report on the exploring expe- 

 dition at "W.ashington in 1844-1861. Ho was 

 commissioned a captain Seiitember 14, 1855, 

 and when the civil war opened was placed in 

 command of the steamer San Jacinto iu 1861 

 and Stiiled in pursuit of the Confederate 

 privateer Sumter. On November 8, 1861, he 

 intercepted at sea the English mail steamer 

 Trent, boiiud from Havana to St. Thomas, W. 

 I., and sent Lieut. Donald M. Fairfax on board 

 to bring off the Confederate commissioners, 

 John Slidell and James M. Mason, with their 

 secretaries. The officials were removed to the 

 San Jacinto, in which they were taken to Fort 

 AVarren, in Boston Harbor. The navy depart- 

 ment gave Capt. Wilkes .in emphatic commen- 

 dation. Congress passed a resolution of tlianks, 

 and his act caused great rejoicing througliout 

 the north, where he was the hero of the hour. 

 But, on the demand of the British government 

 that Mason and Slidell should be given up. Sec- 

 retary Seward complied, saying in bis dispatch 

 that, although tho commissioners and their 

 papers were contraband of -nar, and therefore 

 Wilkes was right in capturing tliciii, he should 

 have taken the Trent into port as a priz.o for 

 ftlljlW^Jflftt'Jpn, 4? lift had I'iiiled to (lo so nn<\ 



Wilkes (C.) — Continued. 



had constituted himself a judge in the matter, 

 to .approve his act would bo to s.auction the 

 "right of search," whicli h.id alw.ays been 

 denied by the United States Government. The 

 prisoners were therefore released. In 1862 

 Wilkes comm.anded tho James River flotilla 

 and shelled City Point. He was promoted to 

 commodore July 16, 1862, and took charge of a 

 special squ.adron in the West Indies. Ho was 

 placed on the retired list because of age, June 

 25, 1864, and promoted to rear-admiral on the 

 retired list July 25, 1866. For his services to 

 science as .m explorer he received a gold medal 

 from tho Geographical Society of London. The 

 I'eports of the Wilkes exploring exi)edition were 

 to consist of twenty-eight quarto volumes, but 

 nine of these were not completed. Of those 

 th.at were published, Capt. Wilkes was the 

 author of tho "Narrative" of the expedition (6 

 vols.,4to, also 5 vols., 8vo, Phihadelphia, 1845; 

 abridged ed.,New York, 1851) and the volumes 

 on "Meteorology" find "Hydrography." 

 Admiral Wilkes was .also the author of West- 

 ern America, Including California and Oregon 

 (Philadelphia, 1«49), and Theory of the Winds 

 (New York, 1850). — Appleton^s Cyclop, of Am. 

 BiOfj. 



Willoughby (C.) Indian.s of the Qui- 

 naielt agency, Washingtou territory. 

 By C. Willoughby. 



In Smithsonian Inst. Ann. Kept, for 1886, part 

 1, pp. 267-282, Washington, 1889, 8°. (Pilling.) 

 A few Quinaielt terms passim. 



Wilson (J?er;. Edward Francis). A com- 

 parative vocabulary. 



In Canadian Indian, vol. 1 (no. 4), pp. 104-107, 

 Owen Sound, Ontario, January, 1891, 8°. 



A vocabul.ary of ton words in .about 56 lan- 

 guages, mostly North American, and including 

 the Flathead .and Nisqu.ally. 



Rev Edward Francis Wilson, son of the late 

 Rev. Daniel Wilson, Islington, prebend.ary of 

 St. Paul's c.athedr.al, and gr.andson of Daniel 

 Wilson, bishop of Calcutta, was born in London 

 December?, 1844, and at the age of 17 left school 

 and emigrated to Canada for tho purpose of lead- 

 ing an agricultural life; soon after his arrival 

 he was led to take an interest in the Indi.ans 

 and resolved to become a missionary . After two 

 years of preparation, much of which time was 

 spent among the Indians, he returned to 

 England, and iu December, 1807, was ordained 

 deacon. Shortly thereafter it was arrjinged 

 that ho should return to Canada as a missionary 

 to the Ojibway Indians, under the auspices of 

 tho Church Missionary Society, which hedid iu 

 .Tuly, 1868. Ho h.as labored among the Indians 

 over since, building two homes — tlioSliingwauk 

 Home, at Sault Ste. Marie, .and the Wawanosh 

 Home, two miles from tho former— and pre- 

 p.aring linguistic works. 



