Early Explorers of Southern South America from the United States

Abstract

IN October 1829, Capt. Nathaniel Brown Palmer, who had discovered the mainland of Antarctica nine years earlier, sailed from New York in the brig Annawan and Capt. Benjamin Pendleton sailed from Stongirigton, Connecticut, in the brig Seraph. With them travelled five scientific investigators, Dr. James Eights of Albany, N.Y., Dr. John Frampton Watson of Philadelphia, Pa., Mr. Jerimiah N. Reynolds of Wilmington, Ohio, and two associates whose names are not known. These five were, as it seems, the first persons from the United States of America who carried out scientific investigations and inland explorations on the continent of South America. The captains of the two brigs independently explored the waters, largely uncharted, between South America and Antarctica.