452 CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



day it blew a strong gale from the eastward. I regretted this much, 

 as it was my intention to make full experiments on the deep tempera- 

 ture and the velocity of the current in the Stream ; but the roughness 

 of the sea and violence of the wind prevented it. The close proximity 

 to our port also, and the increasing impatience of all on board to reach 

 their homes, forbade all unnecessary delay. The experiments we did 

 make gave a difference of three degrees of temperature, between the 

 surface and one hundred fathoms depth. The highest temperature of 

 the surface experienced while crossing the Stream was 79°; when we 

 entered, it was 77°. We were seven hours in crossing it, and found, 

 as in our first passage, that the inner edge was the warmest. During 

 the next half hour after leaving the Gulf Stream, the surface tempera- 

 ture fell twelve degrees, and so continued until we got on soundings, 

 when it rose again some three or four degrees. The morning of the 

 9th was foggy, which rather tried our patience, but by firing guns we 

 attracted the attention of the pilot-boats, and on the fog clearing away 

 a little, discovered one close to us. A pilot now boarded and took 

 charge of the ship, and at noon on the 10th of June, 1S42, anchored us 

 off Sandy Hook, where a steamer came alongside soon afterwards, 

 and took us in tow. After stopping half an hour at the quarantine 

 ground, to receive the visit of the health officer, we held our course 

 towards the city of New York. 



Before I left the Vincennes off the Battery, the crew were called to 

 muster, when I expressed to them my thanks for the manner in which 

 they had conducted themselves during the cruise, and stated the confi- 

 dent belief entertained by me, that they would receive from the govern- 

 ment such rewards as the successful performance of the cruise, and 

 their long and perilous services, entitled them to. A national salute 

 was then fired, and my pennant hauled down; the command of the 

 ship being given to Captain Hudson, who proceeded with her to the 

 navy-yard. As soon as she was safely moored, all the men who could 

 be spared were allowed to go on shore, with their bags and hammocks. 

 A happier set of fellows than they were is not often to be met with ; 

 being relieved from their long confinement on shipboard, and the severe 

 discipline of a man-of-war. 



Those who have perused this full narrative of the events of the 

 Expedition, I confidently believe, will absolve me from all the charges 

 so industriously circulated against me, relative to the manner in which 

 I had conducted the Expedition ; at the same time they will see what 

 meed of honour or reward is justly due to the officers and crews who 

 faithfully served out the cruise. All of the former, and many of the 



