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mind undaunted by difficulty or danger. To these 

 qualities must be added that advancement in 

 navigation, astronomy, natural history, and other 

 branches of science, which few naval officers can 

 boast of, but which were such as fitted him pecu- 

 liarly for selection to the command of the recent 

 Antarctic expedition, for the results of which, from 

 his pen, public expectation is more than usually 

 alive. 



