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our invalids who were on shore, for whom was reserved the melancholy 
satisfaction of accompanying to his last resting-place this latest victim 
of the epidemic. Nevertheless I granted permission that evening to 
MM. Gervaize and Dumoutier to go ashore, since they desired to do so, 
on the express condition that they should be on board the next morning 
by 4 o'clock. 
M. Goupil, artist to the expedition, was scarcely twenty-five years 
of age; his death, although expected, left a profound impression upon us 
all; “for” said M. Dubouzet, ‘no one could have failed to appreciate 
the fine qualities which he possessed. Everyone beheld with distress 
a young man go remarkably talented cut off in the flower of his age, 
after a long and difficult voyage, to which the passion of art and travel 
had led him to sacrifice everything. Never,” added M. Dubouzet, “was 
his noble character so markedly shown as during his long and severe 
sufferings, which he bore with so much courage and resignation, 
dictating his last wishes with the utmost calm. To the last moment 
his thoughts were with his family and his friends; he gave souvenirs 
to each of us, expressing the deepest gratitude to all those who attended 
him.” 
Jan. 2,—A% 2 o’clock the next morning the pilot came alongside our 
corvettes and gave the signal for departure, notwithstanding the calm 
which prevailed. Thanks to the current of the river we soon reached 
the great Bay of Tempests, a magnificent basin where the shallow water 
allows of an anchorage in any part, and where an entire fleet could go 
freely through its evolutions. The wind, till then uncertain, became 
steady in the north-east, but it was possible to tack. We dismissed the 
pilot and ran along the shore to the open sea, the great swell of which 
made itself felt even where we were. 
Jan. 3.—Not till the next morning did we lose sight of the Tasmanian 
shore and begin to run southwards. If the reader will kindly recall 
the chapter placed at the opening of the second volume of this work, in 
which I have attempted to summarise the results obtained by various 
navigators in reaching the glacial regions, he will see that there still 
remained on the zone of the South Pole a vast space to be explored: it 
was that which is bounded by 120° and 160° E. iong.: and it was there 
that I wished to take our corvettes on leaving Hobart Town. I had no 
idea at this time that an English merchant ship had preceded us by a 
year in those latitudes, and I had as yet no knowledge of the Balleny 
Islands nor of Sabrina Land, the discovery of which had been made a 
year before our appearance in these regions. In undertaking the re- 
sponsibility of a fresh attempt to penetrate into the ice, my intention 
was only to make a new exploration along the pack-ice. Isimply wished 
to make some point to the South of Tasmania, determine the parallel 
below which I met solid ice, and then direct my course either to the 
Auckland Islands or to one of the New Zealand ports: while the Zélée 
