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crew were delighted at the termination of this dangerous cruise, not a 
word of impatience or discontent had been heard during its continuance. 
Neither had there been occasion for punishment; and I could not but be 
thankful to have been enabled to conduct the ship through so difficult 
and dangerous a navigation without a single accident, with a crew in as 
good, if not in better condition than when we first reached the icy 
barrier. For myself, I indeed felt worse for the fatigues and anxieties 
I had undergone; but I was able to attend to all my duties, and 
considered myself amply repaid for my impaired health by the im- 
portant discoveries we had made, and the success that had attended our 
exertions. 
I shall now leave the Vincennes to pursue her route northward, and 
return to the Porpoise, the result of whose proceedings will be detailed 
in the following chapter. 
CHAPTER XI. 
AnTaRcTic CruisE—continued. 
1840. 
Proceedings of the Porpoise from the 22nd to the 30th of January—French squadron 
seen—Its commander refuses to speak the Porpotse—Proceedings up to the 3rd of 
February—Gale—Further proceedings to the 12th of February—Specimens of rock 
obtained—Western limit of her cruise—Return to the eastward—Porpoise stands to 
the northward—Auckland Islands—Porpoise arrives at the Bay of Islands—Cruise 
of the Flying Fish—Landing at Macquarie’s Island—Proceedings of the Flying Fish 
up to the 4th of February—State of her crew—Their letter to Lieutenant Pinkney— 
He resolves to return—Arrival of the Flying Fish at the Bay of Islands—Events 
during the return of the Vincennes—She fails to reach Van Diemen’s Land—Arrival 
of the Vincennes at Sydney—Peacock found there—Return of the Peacock from the 
icy barrier—She makes Macquarie’s Island—She arrives at Sydney—State of the 
Peacock—Hospitalities received at Sydney. 
Ow the 22nd January the Porpoise lost sight of the Peacock, and con- 
tinued beating to the south-west. The weather was extremely cold; 
some shrimps were caught; sea-water froze on being a few minutes in 
the bucket on deck. The water at 3 p.m. was much discoloured ; got a 
cast of the lead with 200 fathoms—no bottom; found the current south 
by east, three-fourths of a mile per hour. At 4.30 passed large icebergs, 
one of which had several dark horizontal veins, apparently of earth, 
through it; large quantities of floe and drift-ice to the southward; the 
sea very smooth. A report of high land was made this morning ; indeed, 
everything indicated the proximity of Jand. The number of seals, 
whales, penguins, shrimps, etc., had very much increased. The pure 
white pigeons were also seen in numbers. 
