Darien Exploring Expedition Under Command of Lieut. Isaac C. Strain.

This is the story of exploration – Exploration in all the glory of isolation and starvation. There is something inexpressibly mournful in the detached sentences, entered by a weak and half-starved man in his journal. The absence of all attempt at description; the resigned, almost humble, way of recording their sufferings and their steadily-increasing prostration, are more touching than the most elaborate narrative.
Tuesday, March 14. Left camp at 7.30 A.M. After marching about half an hour, ...