PREFACE. 



reason that this unusual appearance filled us with 

 continual terrors; for, had any of these waves 

 fairly broke over us, it must, in all probability, 

 have sent us to the bottom."* 



The whole of the history of Anson's passing 

 Cape Horn, consists in the relation of storms, ter- 

 rors, and disasters; and the account concludes with 

 their losing sight of two of the squadron, the Se- 

 vern and Pearl, neither of which was ever seen by 

 them afterwards. 



It is presumed that sufficient has now been ad- 

 duced to prove, that the Quarterly Reviewer is 

 entirely ignorant of the subject, or that he wilfully 

 conceals his knowledge, to the infinite detriment 

 of his readers. That forty or fifty whalemen, every 

 year, achieve the passage round Cape Horn, does 

 not prove that the author might not have encoun- 

 tered great difficulties in so doing. If it proves any 

 thing, it is, that these whalers are more fortunate 

 than Anson, Bligh, Krusensteirn, and the author ; 

 since the latter all agree in their accounts of this 

 passage. 



The Reviewer next accuses the author of hostility 

 to the memory of La Perouse : with how much jus- 

 tice, the following passage from page 89 of the first 

 edition of this work, will show. I have the utmost 

 respect for the memory of that celebrated navigator, 

 ^La Perouse,) and regret 1 should have cause to dif- 

 ler with him in opinion, in any point, and particu- 

 larly one of so much importance as the doubling of 

 Cape Horn from the East. Indeed, ample as has 

 been the information he has given on every other 

 subject that has come under his notice, I am almost 

 induced to believe that many of his observations 



" Anson's Voyage, Meniz and Frankfort, English edit, pp.92, 93. 

 101. The* author quotes this bein?; tiie only one in his possession'. 



