The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mined himto return home. He reached Philadelphia in 1846,coming by the way of India, passing through Persia,Syria, Egypt, Greece, Austria, Germany and Swit-zerland. A few montlis o
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mined himto return home. He reached Philadelphia in 1846,coming by the way of India, passing through Persia,Syria, Egypt, Greece, Austria, Germany and Swit-zerland. A few montlis of rest, and then he wascommissioned in May, of the same year, as surgeonto the west coast of Africa, and while there made anexcursion into the interior, visiting the king ofDahomey. Palling a victim to the coast fever andsuffering severely from it he was sent home in 1847on one of the Liberian transport boats. He reachedhome broken down in health, but disease and weak-ness did not pi-event him from exchanging the navalfor tlie military service, and his next commissionwas to the seat of war in Mexico, where he was con-spicuous for his bravery, but was again attackedwith fever and compelled to return. Shortly after,in 1849, being attached to the store-ship Supply, hevisited the Jlediterranean and the West Indies, andit was in this year that the city of Philadelphiahonored him by the presentation of a sword. In. 1850 Kane sailed as surgeon of the Advance underLieut. Edwin J. DeHaven. This was one of twovessels offered by Henry Grinnell of New Yorkto be sent to the Arctic seas in search of Sir JohnFranklin and his companions, who had sailed insearch of the northwest passage from Bafiins Bay tothe Pacific in 1845. Nothing being heard fromthem in 1848, the British government sent out threeexpeditions in search, all of which proved unsuccess-ful. The American government, backed by publicsentiment, accepted the two vessels offered by to the navy, and sent out the United St
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