CONTENTS 



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Introduction ...... . . ....... Page 9 



FIRST VOYAGE. 

 CHAPTER I. 



Thoughts on a Polar Expedition — Objects of the present Voyage — Departure from 

 New-York — Fourth of" July — Crossing the Equator — Visit from Father Nep- 

 tune — Arrival at St. Ann's Islands — Village of St. Joao de Macae — Cape 

 Frio — Arrival at Rio Janeiro — Directions for Entering the Harbour — De- 

 scription of St. Sebastian's — Its Trade and Commerce — Beauty of the sur- 

 rounding Country — Natural Productions — Character of the Inhabitants . . 29 



CHAPTER II. 



Departure from Rio Janeiro to survey the Coast of Patagonia — Cape Corrientes 

 — White Bay — Rio Colorado — Rio Negro: Character and Manners of the In- 

 habitants, with Directions for entering the Harbour — Patagonia — Marvellous 

 Stories — St. Matias's Bay — New Bay — Shooting Bullocks and other Game — 

 St. George's Bay — Apology to the Reader — Cape Blanco — Port Desire, with 

 Sailing Directions — Port St. Julian and Santa Cruz, with Instructions for ap- 

 proaching and entering — A Sabbath-day's Adventure — Description of the Na- 

 tives, their Size, Dress, Mode of Living, Origin, &c. — Survey suspended — ■ 

 Arrival at the Falkland Islands — News of the Henry .... . . 37 



CHAPTER III. 



The Falkland Islands — History, Description, and Natural Productions — Pen- 

 guin, Albatross, &c. — Description of a South Sea Rookery — Arrival at Port 

 Louis — Shooting Bullocks and Geese — Departure from Port Louis — A Search 

 for the Aurora Islands — Perilous Situation among Icebergs — Kergulen's Land 

 —Christmas Harbour — The Sea-elephant — Antarctic Seas, open and tem- 

 perate in lat. 64° 50' 49 



CHAPTER IV. 



Desolation Island, or Kergulen's Land — Christmas Harbour — Natural Produc- 

 tions — Oceanic Animals — Departure from the Island, towards the South Pole — 

 Cross the Antarctic Circle — Procure fresh Water from the Ice — Steer for Sand- 

 wich-land — Candlemas Isles — Southern Thule — Burning Volcanoes — Return to 

 the Antarctic Seas — Mjld Temperature of the Air and Water — No Field-ice in 

 Lat. 70° 14' — Ice-islands and Icebergs ; their Formation — Practicability of 

 reaching the South Pole — New South Greenland — Staten Land .... 62 



CHAPTER V. 



Erroneous Ideas corrected — 'Staten Land — Strait of Le Maire — Natural History 

 of the Fur-seal and Sea-elephant — Exaggerated Accounts of Cape Horn Dan- 

 gers accounted for, and refuted — Doubling the Cape — Prevailing Winds and 



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