HISTORY OF DISCO VERY. 8'A 



on the 17th of March, and also reached Orange Harbour 

 after a stormy voyage on the 22nd of March. 



The course of the other two vessels yielded com- 

 paratively far more important results. In consequence 

 of the bad weather they were separated soon after leav- 

 ing Cape Horn, and as they did not again meet in the 

 position agreed upon, Hudson, with the Peacock, sailed 

 first south and then south-east. He encountered no ice- 

 bergs till the 11th of March, in latitude 64° 27' S. and 

 longitude 84° W. ; after this they rapidly became more 

 numerous and rendered progress very troublesome. On 

 the 20th of March, on meridian 90° W., he had attained 

 a latitude of 68° S. and came upon pack-ice, not far, 

 therefore, from Bellingshausen's Peter I. Island, of which, 

 however, he saw nothino on account of the thick foo. 

 He now steered west, and on the 25th of March, when 

 in longitude 97° 58' W. and latitude 68° S., to his great 

 ■delight he fell in with the Flying Fish. As fresh ice 

 was beginning to form, and the days were growing per- 

 ceptibly shorter, both ships started from here on the 

 return voyage, the Peacock seeing the last iceberg in 

 latitude 62° 30' S. and longitude 8j° 40' W. 



During the voyage of the Peacock, Lieutenant Walker 

 with the Flying Fish first cruised about for several days, 

 after they were separated, in the position determined on 

 for a rendezvous. Then he steered south with the object 

 of finding the position in which Cook had reached his 

 highest southern latitude on the 30th of January, 1774. On 

 the 1 8th of March he came upon a heavy mass of pack- 

 ice in latitude 67° 30' S. and longitude 105° W., on the 

 2 1 st of March, surrounded by many icebergs and in sight 

 of the pack-ice, he had penetrated to latitude 68° 41' S. 

 and longitude 103° 34' W., and on the 23rd of March 

 he succeeded in crossing the 70th parallel of southern 

 latitude in longitude ioo° 16' W., only five degrees 

 farther east than Cook. But what was even more im- 



