AUG. 1859. LEAVE PORT KENNEDY. 285 



Wednesday, 10th. — The S.W. wind proved a good friend to 

 us; by the morning of the 9th it had moved the ice off 

 shore, and cleared away a passage for us out of Brentford 

 Bay. We started under steam at eleven o'clock yesterday 

 morning, and, passing round Long Island, made sail along 

 the land towards Cape Garry, there being a channel about 

 2 or 3 miles wide between the pack and the shore. 



The wind now failed us, and I experienced some little 

 difficulty in the management of the engines and boiler ; the 

 latter primed so violently as to send the hot water and 

 steam over our top-gallant yard, to the dismay of Young, 

 who was up there piloting the ship through the ice, and who 

 was of course very speedily compelled to descend from his 

 eyrie : and the tail valve of the condenser by some means 

 had got out of its seat, and admitted air to the condenser ; 

 but eventually we got the engines to work well, and steamed 

 across Cresswell Bay during the night. The pack rested 

 against Fury Point, and an east wind springing up, we made 

 fast to a large grounded mass of ice in Adelaide Bay, about 

 i mile off shore and in 3 fathoms' water, at eleven o'clock 

 this morning. Having managed the engines for twenty-four 

 consecutive hours, I was not sorry to get into bed. We 

 were hardly out of Brentford Bay when fulmar petrels and 

 white whales were seen — the first we have noticed for 

 eleven and a half months ; dovekies are likewise abundant, 

 and a seal has already been shot. Cresswell Bay is per- 

 fectly clear of ice, but this pale limestone land is the 

 perfection of sterility, even with the rugged hills of Brent- 

 ford Bay in lively recollection. 



Upon the east side of Port Kennedy the bones of whales 

 were found in two places a mile apart from each other ; the 

 lowest of them was 180 feet above the sea, the second was 

 more than 300 feet high. The latter I examined, and found 

 a jawbone, two ribs, a joint of the vertebrae, and fragments 



