NARRATIVE 



OF Til F. 



UNITED STATES' 

 EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 



UUKING THE YEARS 



1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 



It V 



CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N. 



COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION, 

 V!.V M il Oy THE AMERICAN PlULOSOHIfCAL SOCIETV, &C. 



CONDENSED AND ABRIDGED. 



LONDON: 



WHTTTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. 



