. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . during the troubles of 1798-1803. Hewas influential in bringing the negotiations to aspeedy conclusion, preventing the impatient ad-miral several times from bombarding Cape Hay-tien. From 1841 till 1845 he was in South Americaand the Marquesas islands, as secretary to AdmiralI)u Petit-Thouars, and he has since devoted himselfto literary labors. Among other works, he has pub-lished Souvenirs de IAmerique Espagnole : Chili,Perou, Bresil (Paris, 1856; revised ed., 1874). RAE, John, explorer, b. in Clestrain House, Ork-neys, 30 1813; d. in Lo
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . during the troubles of 1798-1803. Hewas influential in bringing the negotiations to aspeedy conclusion, preventing the impatient ad-miral several times from bombarding Cape Hay-tien. From 1841 till 1845 he was in South Americaand the Marquesas islands, as secretary to AdmiralI)u Petit-Thouars, and he has since devoted himselfto literary labors. Among other works, he has pub-lished Souvenirs de IAmerique Espagnole : Chili,Perou, Bresil (Paris, 1856; revised ed., 1874). RAE, John, explorer, b. in Clestrain House, Ork-neys, 30 1813; d. in London, 24 July, visited Clestrain, when travelling in the Ork-ney islands, to gain local information for writingThe Pirate. Mr. Rae studied medicine at theUniversity of Edinburgh from 1829 till 1833, whenhe was graduated, entered the service of the Hud-son bay company as surgeon, and lived at Moosefort from 1835 till 1845, making many explora-tions in British America. In 1846-7 he visitedthe Arctic sea, and spent the winter in a stone. house at Repulse bay without fuel, during whichtime he traced about 635 statute miles of newland and coast forming the shores of Committeebay. In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richard-son in a search for Sir John Franklin along thecoast from Mackenzieriver to Coppermineriver, and in 1850 wasplaced in charge of asimilar expedition bythe Hudson bay com-pany. He chose theroute by Great Bearlake and Coppermineriver, tracing 030 milesof unexplored coastalong the southernshores of Victoria andWollaston lands, andfinding two pieces ntwood that were prob-ably parts of Sir JohnFranklins Esquimaux gavehim scant information regarding the party theyhad seen a few years before, and Dr. Rae explainsin a pamphlet, published in London, that thereason he did not immediately search for his sup-posed countrymen was owing to his imperfectKnowledge of their route, and to the condition ofthe lowlands flooded by melting snow, which ren-dered progre
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