214 AN EVENING WITH LIEUT. GREY. 



The next afternoon I followed Lieut. Grey round 

 to Hanover Bay, distant twelve miles from the 

 Beagle's anchorage. On the passage I noticed that 

 the remarkable bluff, spoken of by Captain King, 

 had been omitted in the charts, and a low rocky 

 point marked in its place. It was after sunset when 

 we reached the schooner in Hanover Bay ; the greater 

 part of the night was devoted to an examination of 

 Lieut. Grey's plans of his expedition, and the drawings 

 with which various events in it had been illustrated. 

 All these were executed with a finished carefulness 

 one could not have expected to find in works carried 

 on in the bush, and under such varied circum- 

 stances of distraction and anxiety as had followed 

 Lieut. Grey's footsteps : though terribly worn and ill, 

 our opportune arrival, and the feeling that he was 

 among those who could appreciate his exertions, 

 seemed already to operate in his recovery. Upon an 

 old and tattered chart, that had indeed " done the 

 state some service," we attempted to settle the pro- 

 bable course of the Glenelg, the knotty question 

 held us for some hours in hot debate ; but as in a pre- 

 vious paragraph, I have rendered my more deliberate 

 opinions, I need not here recount the varied topics 

 discussed during that momorable evening : but it 

 may be readily imagined with how swift a flight one 

 hour followed another, while I listened w^ith eager 

 impatience to Lieut. Grey's account of a country and 

 people till now unknown even to English enterprise. 

 He appears to have seen the same kind of grape-like 



