If Any Thing Alleviated The
Dreariness Of The Prospect, With A Great Part Of Our Shipmates, It Was
The Hope Of Completing The Circle Round The South Pole, In A High
Latitude, During The Next Inhospitable Summer, And Of Returning To
England Within The Space Of Eight Months.
This hope contributed to
animate the spirits of our people during the greatest part of our
continuance in bad
Weather; but in the end it vanished like a dream,
and the only thought which could make them amends, was the certainty
of passing another season among the happy islands in the torrid
zone." - G.F.
SECTION VI.
Route of the Ship from New Zealand in Search of a Continent; with an
Account of the various Obstructions met with from the Ice, and the Methods
pursued to explore the Southern Pacific Ocean.
AT eight o'clock in the evening of the 26th, we took our departure from
Cape Palliser, and steered to the south, inclining to the east, having a
favourable gale from the N.W. and S.W. We daily saw some rock-weeds, seals,
Port Egmont hens, albatrosses, pintadoes, and other peterels; and on the 2d
of December, being in the latitude of 48 deg. 23' south, longitude 179 deg. 16'
west, we saw a number of red-billed penguins, which remained about us for
several days. On the 5th, being in the latitude 50 deg. 17' south, longitude
179 deg. 40' east, the variation was 18 deg. 25' east. At half an hour past eight
o'clock the next evening, we reckoned ourselves antipodes to our friends in
London, consequently as far removed from them as possible.[1]
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