ASCENDING TABASCO RIVER AT DEVIL'S BEND

This is Lt. Henry Walke's original sketch from which he composed the
accompanying print (next 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."

Henry Walke.   Original sketch.  U. S. Naval Academy Museum.  1847.

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