340 THE ANTARCTIC MANUAL. 
Feb. 10.—A 2a.m. bore up for it, ran through a considerable quantity 
of drift-ice and got within half a mile, but found it completely ice-bound, 
with high perpendicular cliffs. Iwished to run between the middle and 
western island, but was compelled to come out to the eastward again, as, 
from the western island to the eastern one on the west (or rather 8. W.) 
side, the sea was in one firm and solid mass without a passage. The 
weather at sunrise was very threatening. At 6 it came on thick, since 
when we have been compelled to stand off. I make the high bluff 
western points of the middle island to be in latitude 66° 44’ S., longi- 
tude 163° 11'E. A lunar at 2 o’clock agrees with the Port Chalky 
time. Temperature at noon, 42°; wind east; the weather continuing 
moderate, but very thick, to the end. 
Feb. 11.—Thick. At 1 am. had to hoist out a boat to tow the 
vessel clear of an iceberg which we were close to but could not see, and 
no wind. At 11am. cleared, and saw the land bearing about W.S.W. 
and of a tremendous height, I should suppose at least 12,000 feet, and 
covered with snow. At noon we had a very indifferent observation, 
which gave the latitude 66° 30’, and it immediately came on thick ; 
wind N.W.; temperature 42°. 
Feb. 12.—This morning the weather clears and thickens occasionally, 
At 2a.m. saw the land bearing §.8.E. about 10 miles. The west point 
of the west island bore W.N.W. At 8 land completely ice-bound. At 
noon, temperature 35°; tacked and worked in shore for harbour or beach. 
At 4 p.m. abreast of the small island; the eastern island now at a differ- 
ent bearing appeared a large one; latitude by account 66° 22’, longitude 
163° 49' E. At6p.m. went on shore in the cutter’s boat, at the only 
place likely to afford a landing; but when we got close with the boat 
it proved only the drawback of the sea, leaving a beach of 3 or 4 feet 
at most. Captain Freeman jumped out and got a few stones, but was 
up to the middle in water. There is no landing or beach on this land; 
in fact, but for the bare rocks where the icebergs had broken from, we 
should scarce have known it for land at first, but, as we stood in for it, 
we plainly perceived smoke arising from the mountain tops. It is 
evidently volcanic, as the specimens of stone, or cinders, will prove. 
The cliffs are perpendicular, and what in all probability would have 
been valleys and beaches are occupied by solid blocks of ice. I could 
not see a beach or harbour, or anything like one. Returned on board 
at 7, and got the vessels safely through the drift-ice before dark, and 
ran along the land. 
Feb. 13—Light winds from the southward and cloudy weather, with 
much ice around. At 8.30, a fog coming on, took the bearings of the 
centre of the land §.8.W., distant 16 leagues by the log. Numerous 
whales and penguins in sight, also a few Cape pigeons and a small white 
bird, but no albatrosses nor mollymawks. Tried for soundings severa 
times, at the distance of 6, 8 and 10 miles from the land, but got no 
