466 THE ANTARCTIC MANUAL. 
fairly steeply when near shore. At 6 p.m. we were able to make out high 
mountains, the summits standing out black against the sky, and the 
gentler slopes covered with snow ; these were the South Shetlands, dis- 
covered by Dirk Gerritsz in 1599, and re-discovered by William Smith in 
1819. At9p.m. the profile of the land was so clearly visible that by 
means of a field-glass I was able to make a sketch of Livingstone island. 
Smith island, which was visible to the right of Livingstone island, 
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plunged almost perpendicularly to the sea; it appeared to be a rounded 
mass cut here and there into cliffs. We had to pass between these two 
islands. A large iceberg appeared in the south-south-east, and others 
lay off the islands; at eleven o’clock we passed some pieces of floating 
ice, and saw more towards the south, and then a little fog, accompanied 
by fine rain, shut out the view. 
On Friday, January 21, while we were at breakfast, a little after 
