SUMMARY OF THE VOYAGE. 
H.M.S. Herald, under the command of Captain Henry Kellctt, C.B., accompanied by 
H.M.S. Pandora, Lieutenafit-Commander James AVood, sailed from Plymouth Soimd on the 
26th of June, 1845. She sighted Cape Finisterre, Porto Santo, and Madeira, and on the 
13th of July anchored off the town of Santa Cruz, island of Tencriffc. After a stay of two 
days the voyage was continued. On the Gth of August, latitude 2° 32' south and longitude 
30° 53' west was reached, where the depth of the sea was measured and found to be 2995 
fathoms. On the 9th of August the island of Pcrnando Noronha was in sight, and on the 
19th of the same month the ships entered the Bay of Rio Janeiro. Leaving that port on the 
28th of August, the Herald and her tender directed then- com'sc to the Falkland Islands, 
and having remained a few days at that group, steered southwards. On the 4th of October 
the cold was found to be intense, and at daybreak it was discovered that the Herald was 
under the lee of a large iceberg, and that the Pandora was out of sight. After going as far 
south as 59° 24' S., and encountering all those obstacles for wiiich the passage around Cape 
Horn is notorious, the Herald reached the Bay of Concepcion, and on the 14th of November 
Valparaiso, Cliili, where the Pandora had arrived a fortnight previously, and where, as well 
as fi'om Pichidanquc, the Aconcagua, the highest summit of the Andes, was measured, and 
proved to be 23,000 feet above the sea. The next port visited was that of Papudo. On 
the 7th of December, Captain Kellctt again steered northward, and touching at Callao, 
Payta, and the Gallapagos Islands, anchored on the 22nd of January, 1846, off the river 
Sua, Ecuador. It was here that the expedition was deprived of its zealous and able 
natm-alist, Mr. Thomas Edmonston, who, after returning from a botanical excursion, was 
killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle. The river Esmeraldas having been visited. 
Captain Kellett commenced sm-veying the Bay of Choco, a labom- intermpted, in the middle 
of March, by the heavy rains, which compelled the vessels to make sail for Panama. 
