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see. The next day, when all attempts at further progress 

 had been relinquished, and the course towards the north 

 already begun, a kind of sea-swallow (Sterna) was 

 observed, from whose presence Bellingshausen concluded 

 that he must be in the neighbourhood of land. This 

 occurred in latitude 68° 5' S. and longitude 16° 37' E. 

 As far as 34° E. the ships now held a course somewhat 

 south of 65° S. then the direction was changed to south- 

 east again, so that under longitude 40° 56' E. a latitude 

 •of 66° 53' S. was attained. At the same time, however, 

 the ice again grew so dense that further attempts to 

 penetrate it appeared useless. This was almost exactly 

 in the same region whence Cook had undertaken his 

 first advance south, and had in like manner encountered an 

 impenetrable barrier of ice. Here also Bellingshausen 

 was 01 opinion that land could not be far distant, as he 

 repeatedly observed birds not usually met with at any 

 great distance from land. If only he had continued his 

 eastward course five degrees farther he would of necessity 

 have encountered Enderby Land, now accurately laid 

 down. He continued his course along latitude 62 30' S. 

 as far as longitude 69° E., crossed latitude 6o° S. only 

 under 88° E. in the latter part of March, surrounded by 

 drift-ice, and now turned to Port Jackson, i.e., Sydney, 

 in New South Wales. 



After spending the southern winter in the careful 

 exploration and laying down of the Paumotu group, he 

 left Sydney on the 1st of December, 1820, at the be- 

 ginning of the southern summer, and steered south. 

 1 On the 10th of the same month he fell in with the first 

 icebergs in latitude 62° 18' S. and longitude 164 13' E., 

 and dense pack-ice soon after, enclosing numerous ice- 

 bergs, one of which Bellingshausen estimated at (11 

 km.) nearly seven miles. The pack-ice compelled his 

 keeping close to the edge towards the south-east, where 

 the number of the icebergs increased, so that at one time 



