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NARRATIVE 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES EXPLORINS EXPEDITION 



DURL\G THE YEARS 1838, -39, '40, '41 and '42. 

 Br CHARLES WILKES, Esq., U. S. N., 



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illustrated with Maps, and about Three Hundred Splendid Engravings on Wood, 



Descriptive of the Manners and Customs of Savage Life ; 



Arms, 



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i Antarctic Ocean, 



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Tliough offered at a price so low, this is the complete work, containing all the letterpress of the 

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 the large steel plates of the quarto edition being omitted, and neat wood cuts substituted for forty- 

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The attention of persons forming libraries is especially directed to this work, as presenting the 

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SCHOOL and other PUBLIC LIBRARIES should not be without it, as embodying the results of 

 the First Scientific Expedition commissioned by our government to explore foreign regions. 



