Miscellanies. : 395 
On the morning of the 19th of January, we saw land to the south and 
east, with many indications of being in its vicinity, such a as penguin, seal, 
and the discoloration of the water, but the impenetrable barrier of ice 
prevented our nearer approach to it, and the same day we again saw the 
Peacock to the south and west. We were in long. 104° 27’ E., and lat. 
s. 
On the 22d we fell in with large clusters and bodies of ice, and ‘ithe: 
merable ice islands, and until the 25th were in a large bay formed by ice, 
examining the different points in hopes of effecting an entrance to the 
south, but were disappointed. We here reached the lat. 67° 4’, in long. 
147° 30’ E., being thefarthest south we penetrated. Appearances of 
distant land were seen in the eastward and westward, but all points ex- 
cept the one we entered, presented an impenetrable barrier. We here 
filled up our water tanks with ice mages from an iceberg alongside the 
ship. 
We made our magnetic observations on the ice. The dipping needles 
gave 87° 30’ for the dip, and our azimuth compass was so sluggish on 
the ice, that on being agitated, and bearing taken again, it gave nearly 
three points difference; the variation being 12° 35' E. A few days 
afterwards, about one hundred miles further to the west, we had no varia- 
‘tion, and thence it rapidly increased in westerly variation, from which I 
am of opinicn that when in the ice bay we could not have been very far 
from the south magnetic pole. This bay I named Disappointment Bay, 
as it seemed to put an end to all our hopes of further progress south. 
On the 27th we fell in with the Porpoise, in long. 142° 20’ E., and lat. 
65° 54’ S., and parted company shortly afterwards. 
On the 28th, at noon, after thirteen repulses, we reached long. 140° 
30’ E., and lat. 66° 33' S., where we again discovered land bearing south, 
having run over forty miles, thickly studded with icebergs. The same 
evening we had a heavy gale from the southeast, with snow, hail, and 
thick weather, which rendered our situation very dangerous, and com- 
pelled us to retrace our steps by the route which we had entered. During 
this gale we were unable to see the distance of a fourth of a mile, con- 
Stantly passing near icebergs which surrounded us, and rendering it 
necessary to keep all hands on deck. On the morning of the 30th the 
gale abated, and we returned by the same route to reach the land, when 
the dangers we encountered among the ice the preceding night, _ our 
Providential escape, were evident to all. 
We ran towards the land about fifty miles, when we reached a small 
bay pointed by high ice cliffs and black volcano rocks, with about sixty 
miles of coast in sight, extending to a great distance towards tam south- 
ward, in high mountainous land. 
The breeze freshened to a strong gale, which prevented our landing, 
and compelled us to run out after sounding in thirty fathoms water; and 
