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182 ship, and immediately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with the awful example which he had just witnessed of the danger of navigating the Polar seas in high northern latitudes.

On returning to England he made various inquiries respecting vessels that had disappeared in an unknown way, and by comparing the results of those with the information which was afforded by the written documents in his possession, he ascertained the name and history of the imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate master, and found that she had been frozen thirteen years previous to the time of his discovering her among the ice.

, the painter of life and scenery in the country of the North American Indians, was originally a barrister in the United States. Having little practice, and a strong passion for art, he abandoned his profession, sold his law library, and started as a painter in Philadelphia. A deputation of Indian chiefs having arrived in that city, Catlin was struck by their picturesque appearance and dignified manners, and was led to study the history of those interesting people, who appear to be doomed to fade out on the great northern American continent, which was once their own, Catlin was born and had spent his early days in his father's home in the beautiful valley of Wyoming, on the Susquehannah, the scene of Campbell's poem of