Kane, Elisha Kent, an American explorer, born in Philadelphia; bred to medicine; became a surgeon in the navy; acquired a taste for adventure; from his experiences in such accompanied, in 1850, the first Grinnell expedition to the Arctic seas, and commanded the second in 1853, after three years returning with many discoveries; he wrote accounts of both expeditions (1820‒1857).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kandy * Kane, Sir Robert