CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



PRELIMINARY REMARKS— PROCEEDINGS OF THE SQUADRON TO THE SECOND OF JANUARY 

 —SEPARATION OF THE FLYING-FISH AND PEACOCK — FIRST ICEBERG SEEN — FALL IN 

 WITH THE ICY BARRIER — PORPOISE LOST SIGHT OF — PROCEEDINGS OF THE PEACOCK 

 FROM THE THIRD OF JANUARY— HER VISIT TO MACQUARIE'S ISLAND— FIRST ICEBERG 

 SEEN BY HER— SHE FALLS IN WITH THE ICY BARRIER— PROCEEDINGS OF THE PORPOISE 

 —SEA-ELEPHANTS SEEN AND TAKEN— LAND SEEN FROM ALL THE VESSELS— PROCEED- 

 INGS OF THE VINCENNES FROM THE SIXTEENTH OF JANUARY— SHE ENTERS A DEEP 

 BAY IN THE BARRIER— PEACOCK AND PORPOISE SEEN — PEACOCK SPOKEN — LAND DIS- 

 TINCTLY SEEN FROM THE VINCENNES AND PEACOCK— FIGHT BETWEEN A WHALE AND 

 KILLER, SEEN FROM THE PEACOCK — PROCEEDINGS OF THE PEACOCK — SOUNDINGS 

 OBTAINED BY HER — HER PERILOUS SITUATION AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE — HER 

 CRIPPLED CONDITION — CAPTAIN HUDSON RESOLVES TO RETURN— HIS ADMIRABLE CON- 

 DUCT, AND THAT OF HIS OFFICERS AND CREW 297—324 



CHAPTER X. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE VINCENNES FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND OF JANUARY — DISAP- 

 POINTMENT BAY— WATERING ON THE ICE— DIAGRAMS OF THE ICE-ISLANDS — THEIR 

 UTILITY— VIOLENT GALE AND SNOW-STORM — NARROW ESCAPE FROM STRIKING THE 

 ICE — THE OPEN SEA REACHED — RETURN OF FINE WEATHER — VINCENNES STANDS 

 AGAIN TO THE SOUTH, AND REACHES THE ICY BARRIER— PINER'S BAY— SOUNDINGS 

 IN THIRTY FATHOMS— ANOTHER VIOLENT GALE— REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS 

 —OPINION OF THE WARD-ROOM OFFICERS-DETERMINATION TO PROCEED WITH THE 

 CRUISE — ITS EVENTS UP TO THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY — LANDING ON AN ICE- 

 BERG—SPECIMENS OF ROCKS OBTAINED— INQUIRY IN RELATION TO THE FORMATION 

 OF ICEBERGS — THEIR SEPARATION FROM THE LAND — THEIR PROGRESS — FURTHER 

 EVIDENCE IN RELATION TO THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT— ESTIMATE OF THE RATE 

 AT WHICH THE FLOATING ICE MOVES — THE VINCENNES BEGINS HER RETURN TO 

 THE NORTH 327—357 



CHAPTER XL 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE PORPOISE FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE THIRTIETH OF 

 JANUARY — FRENCH SQUADRON SEEN — ITS COMMANDER REFUSES TO SPEAK THE 

 PORPOISE— PROCEEDINGS UP TO THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY— GALE— FURTHER PROCEED- 



