ISLAND OF ROMANZOW. 111 
15° 51’ 20’ South; and the longitude 140° 50’ 50’. 
According to Captain Bellingshausen’s chart, 
the latitude is 15° 51’, the longitude 140° 52”. 
Unable to discover any traces of inhabitants 
on this island, we should have supposed there 
were none, had not Captain Bellingshausen 
ascertained the contrary. 
“At night we retired to some distance from 
the island and lay-to, that we might not, in the 
darkness, strike on any unknown land. At 
break of day I steered a north-west course, to 
see the island of Romanzow, (which I had 
formerly discovered when with the ship Rurik,) 
and convince myself cf the accuracy of the 
astronomical observations then made. At eight 
o'clock in the morning we could see the north 
point of the group of Wolchonsky Islands, re- 
cently discovered by Captain Bellingshausen. 
When they. lay seven miles off us, to the South, 
we found the longitude, according to our chro- 
nometers, 142° 2’ 38’. Bellingshausen consi- 
dered it to be 142° 7’ 42”. 
From failure of wind, we could not make the 
island of Romanzow till the morning of the 
8th of March. We then took advantage of 
