CHAPTER III. 



DEATH 01' CAPTAIN BTANLET SAIL FOE ENGLAND - AEEITE 



AT THE BAT OF ISLANDS KOEOEAEEKA FALLS OF THE 



KEEI-KEEI— PASSAGE ACEOSS THE SOUTH PACIFIC — OCEANIC 



BIEDS STAT AT THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — SETTLEMENT OF 



STANLET— CALL AT BEEKELET SOUND LASSOING CATTLE — ■ 



EESUME OIIE HOMEWAED TOTAGE — CALL AT HOETA IN THE 

 AZOEES — THE CALDEIEA OF FATAL — AEEITE IN ENGLAND. 



Soon after our arrival in Sydney we had to 

 lament the loss of our much respected commander, 

 who died suddenly on March 13th, while apparently 

 convalescent from a severe illness contracted during- 

 our last cruise,— induced, I understand, by long- con- 

 tinued mental anxiety, and the cares necessarily 

 devolving upon the leader of an expedition such as 

 ours, of which probably no one who has not been 

 similarly situated can ever fully comprehend the 

 responsibility. Thus died at the early age of thirty- 

 nine, but after the successful accomplishment of the 

 chief objects of his mission, Captain Owen Stanley, 

 who had long before won for himself an honourable 

 name in that branch of the naval service to which 

 he had devoted himself, and whose reputation as a 

 surveyor and a man of science stood deservedly 

 high. Although it would ill become me as a civilian 

 attached to the expedition to enter upon the services* 



* See O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary, p. 1 lOO. 



