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NARRATIVE 
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EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 
DURING THE YEARS 
1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 
BY 
CHARLES WILKES, U. S. N, 
COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION, 
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
IN FIVE VOLUMES, AND AN ATLAS. 
VOL. I. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
LEA & BLANCHARD. 
1845. 
