NAVAL EXPEDITION UNDER COMMO. PERRY ASCENDING THE TABASCO RIVER - June 15, 1847
Henry
Walke. U. S. Naval Academy Museum. 1847.
This is Lt. Henry Walke's
accompanying print later composed from an original sketch (previous page). The rounding of Devil's Bend was described as:
"At this place we expected a most formidable opposition. Here is a long reach of a mile and a quarter in length; the river narrows, and an obstruction thrown across the bar, with a
strong breakwork commanding it. As the shades of evening stole upon us we were fired upon again from the bushes, the discharge breaking a man's leg on board of the Vesuvius.
We opened the big guns on them again, cleared the woods of mosquitoes, and went to bed."
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