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fitted out, there was not an officer in either ship that 

 did not express mortification and disappointment. 



Lieutenant Robertson was an active and in- 

 telligent officer, a good observer and surveyor ; and 

 Lieutenant Hoppner, son of the artist, an excel- 

 lent draughtsman. One of the midshipmen, J. C. 

 Ross, a young man of the most active and willing 

 disposition, has subsequently been employed in 

 every Arctic expedition, commanded the recent 

 Antarctic voyage of three years, and is now Cap- 

 tain Sir James Clarke Ross, married, and enjoying 

 the fruit of his valuable and highly praiseworthy 

 labours. His name will frequently occur. 



Captain Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, well 

 known for his scientific acquirements, and for the 

 knowledge and use of mathematical and astrono- 

 mical instruments, being desirous of the oppor- 

 tunity of putting his skill into practical experi- 

 ence, was requested to join the expedition as a 

 volunteer, and, like the rest, had but too much 

 cause to be disappointed and aggrieved. An ac- 

 count of his subsequent and valuable labours, how- 

 ever, will hereafter find a place in the present 

 narrative. 



It would have been more agreeable, in the outset 

 of the present volume, to have passed over this 

 first voyage of discovery in the Arctic regions, 

 than to be obliged to notice it under a feeling 

 of disappointment, which the perusal of it so un- 



