8 BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OE H.M.S. HEUALD. 
having been received, H.M.S. Plover at once entered upon their execution by starting for the 
noi-th ; the Herald Mowed. The Herald during this summer was chiefly confined to the 
neigh])oiu^hood of Cape Lisbiu-ne, in order to await H.M.S. Enterprise and Investigator. The 
latter made her appearance on the last day of July, and without delay started for the ice. 
After visiting various places on the coast of America, the Herald on the 4th of September 
entered Port Clarence, where the Plover and Enterprise were met with. Ha\ing assisted the 
Plover in preparing her winter quarters in Grantley harbom-, the Herald depai'tcd, and on the 
IGth of October arrived at Honolulu. She thus completed her thh-d and last voyage to the 
Arctic Ocean ; she had used every endeavour to rescue the unfortunate navigators, but w^as 
mortified to find that after all her exertions she had failed to accomphsh the great object of 
her mission. 
On the 30th of October, after a stay of a fortnight in the harbour of Honolulu, the 
Herald commenced her homeward voyage, by bidding adieu to the Hawaiian Islands. 
Wafted along by the N.E. trade- wind, she arrived, on the 1 9th of November, in sight of the 
island of Assumption, passed Eormosa and the Bashee group, and reached, on the 1st of 
December, the harbour of Victoria, Hong-Kong. Several of the officers made an excursion 
to Canton. On the 22nd of December the voyage w^as continued. After calhng at the 
island of Aor, the Herald reached Singapore, where she remained till the 9th of January, 
1851. In passing through the Straits of Sunda, a party effected a landing in Sumatra. 
On the 16th of January the Herald entered the Indian Ocean; she sighted the island of 
Keeling, and on the Cth of March anchored in Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope. The 
next places visited were the islands of St. Helena and Ascension, where excursions were 
made. Leaving, on the 20th of April, Ascension, and sighting, on the 20th and 2Ist of 
May, the islands of Elores and Corvo, two of the Azores, H.M.S. Herald arrived, on the 
6th of June, 1851, at Spithcad, whence she was ordered to Chatham to be paid o£F. 
Thus was completed a voyage which will ever remain remarkable. There are few ships 
that have gone, in an equal space of time, over so extensive a portion of the globe, furnished 
a greater amount of hydrographical data, or brought together a more extensive collection of 
objects of natm'al histoiy and important observations, than H.M.S. Herald, during the years 
1845-51. 
H. T. 
