Where is the island Borin,[2] and who lives there? Tell me, if you please, the names of some great countries.
What are Kanaka Wich, to what country do they belong?[3]
What are the implements at the disposal of an officer, who commands ten thousand soldiers in the field?
What are the advantages of the steam-gun?
Give me a recipe to make percussion-caps.
In a Dutch book on military art I found, that for a newly-invented gun or musket the percussion-caps are attached to the cartridge by a thread. Why don’t the Americans have such muskets, haven’t they yet discovered how?
Why do people from other countries live in Loo-Choo?
Simoda on the horizon from the north pole in what degree? And in what degree to the east from London? a few days ago the masters of the Mississippi have been measuring, they must know.
If you will be kind enough to give me the information, what is the most useful and latest invention in America for military men. I shall be obliged to you and be always ready to oblige you in return.
It will worry your mind to read my letter and I find expressions for what my soul suggests.