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climes and habitudes, with constitutions most of them 
impaired by disease, or temporarily broken by the ex- 
cesses of shore life. But this original defect of mate- 
rial was in a great degree counteracted by the strict 
and judicious discipline of our executive officers. The 
crews proved in the end willing and reliable ; and, in 
the midst of trials which would have tested men of 
more pretension, were never found to waver. I re- 
cord, in the commencement of this narrative, how 
much respect and kindly feeling I, as one of their lit- 
tle body, entertain for their essential contribution to 
the ends of the expedition. 
Of my brother officers I can not say a word. I am 
so intimately bound to them by the kindly and un- 
broken associations of friend and mess-mate, that I 
shrink from any other mention of them than such as 
my narrative requires. All told, our little corps of 
officers numbered four for each ship, including that 
non-efiective limb, the doctor. Our two crews, with 
the aid of a cook and steward, counted twelve and 
thirteen ; giving a total of but thirty-three, whose dis- 
tribution and positions will be seen in the accompa- 
nying list. 
ADVANCE. 
0_fficers. 
Lieutenant Commanding — Edwin J. De Haren, commanding the expedition. 
Passed Midshipman — William H. Murdaugh, acting master and first officer. 
Midshipman — ^William I. Lovell, second officer. 
E. K. Kane, M.D., passed assistant surgeon. 
Crew. 
William Morton, Henry De Roque, John Blinn, Gibson Caruthers, Thomas 
Dunning, William West, Charles Berry, Louis Costa, William Holmes, Edward 
Wilson, William Benson, Edward C. Delano, James Smith. 
