CHAPTER III. 



DEATH OF CAPTAIN STANLEY SAIL FOK ENGLAND AERITE 



AT THE BAT OF ISLANDS KOEOEAEEKA FALLS OF THE 



KEEI-KEEI — PASSAGE ACEOSS THE SOUTH PACIFIC— OCEANIC 



BIEDS STAY AT THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — SETTLEMENT OF 



STANLEY— CALL AT BEEKELEY SOUND LASSOING CATTLE — 



EESUME OUE HOMEWAED YOYAGE — CALL AT HOETA IN THE 

 AZORES — THE CALDEIEA OF FAYAL — AEBIYE IN ENGLAND. 



Soon after our arrival in Sydney we had to 

 lament the loss of our much respected commander, 

 who died suddenly on March ISth, while apparently 

 convalescent from a severe illness contracted during- 

 our last cruise, — induced, I understand, by long* con- 

 tinued mental anxiety, and the cares necessarily 

 devolving upon the leader of an expedition such as 

 ours, of which probably no one who has not been 

 similarly situated can ever fully comprehend the 

 responsibility. Thus died at the early ag*e of thirty- 

 nine, but after the successful accomplishment of the 

 chief objects of his mission, Captain Owen Stanley, 

 who had lono- before won for himself an honourable 

 name in that branch of the naval service to Avhich 

 he had devoted himself, and whose reputation as a 

 surveyor and a man of science stood deservedly 

 hio-h. Althouo-h it would ill become me as a civilian 

 attached to the expedition to enter upon the services* 



* See O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary, p. 1 XOit. 



