We passed far to the north of the newly discovered Brooks Island, and kept southward of the Aleutian chain.

Since my return to America I have read the account of a curious discovery on an island of the North Pacific.

In 1816, the ship Canton, belonging to the East India Company, sailed from Sitka and was supposed to have foundered at sea.

Nothing was heard of her until 1867, when a portion of her wreck was found upon a coral island of the Sybille group.

The remaining timbers were in excellent preservation, and the place where the crew had encamped was readily discernible.