APPKNDIX. 263 



No. II. 

 ABSTRACT OF THE VOYAGE. 



We sailed from Falmouth in H. M. S. Fly, in company 

 with her tender the Bramble schooner, on Sunday after- 

 noon, April 11th, 1842, and anchored at Funchal in the 

 Island of Madeira on the following Sunday morning, 

 April 18th. We remained here a few days to rate the 

 chronometers, and then sailed to Teneriffe, where a party 

 of us ascended the celebrated Pic de Teyde. We carried 

 up a mountain barometer, and the mean of our observations 

 gave 12,080 feet for its height above the sea. We left 

 Teneriffe on May 3rd, and on May 9th touched for a few 

 hours at Porto Praya in St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verde 

 Islands. We crossed the equator on May 18th, and on the 

 23rd hove to for a few hours, and landed on the little 

 island of Trinidad. Thence we sailed to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where we anchored in Simon's Bay on June J 9th. 

 We stayed here some time to refit and refresh, and also to 

 compare our magnetic instruments with those of the 

 observatory at Cape Town. We again sailed on July 14th, 

 and on August 5th anchored under the little island of St. 

 Paul's, and visited the interior of the crater in our boats. 

 On August the 27th, we entered Storm Bay in Van 

 Diemen's Land, and remained at Hobarton till October 6th. 

 Then calling for a day or two at Port Arthur, we proceeded 

 to Sydney, where we arrived on October 15th, and remained 

 till November 24th. On November 26th, we entered Port 

 Stephens, and having then completed our preparations and 

 collected all the preliminary information we could acquire, 



