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The Hillsdale Standard
Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan
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British officers from the ship Virago, including Mr. William Kennish of New York, surveyed a practicable route across the Isthmus of Darien. Four seamen were killed by Indians, and the party descended a stream to the Atlantic before returning due to lack of provisions.
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The officers of the British ship Virago had made a survey of a route across the Isthmus of Darien, by which they had discovered what they proclaim to be a very practicable route. Mr. William Kennish, of New York, made one of the party. Four of the seamen who were left at one of the ports, while the rest of the party continued the survey, were slain by the Indians. The party continued their examination and measurements till they came to a stream, down which they easily descended in a canoe to the Atlantic, when their provisions gave out, and they returned in eighteen hours to their ship. This route is said to be the most practicable one yet discovered.
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Isthmus Of Darien
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four seamen slain by the indians; discovery of a very practicable route across the isthmus.
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The officers surveyed a route across the Isthmus of Darien, discovering a practicable path. Four seamen left at a port were killed by Indians. The party continued to a stream, descended by canoe to the Atlantic, but returned to their ship in eighteen hours after provisions ran out.