CHAPTER XLVIII 
ENDERBY AND HIS CAPTAINS: BISCOE— KEMPE— BALLENY 
Charles Enderby is a name which should ever receive 
honour from geographers. Though engaged in the Ant- 
arctic sealing trade, his captains always had orders to 
pay as close attention to geographical research and 
discovery as their work permitted them, and he was well 
served in this respect by the able navigators in his 
employment. Mr Enderby was for ten years on the 
Council of the Royal Geographical Society, and was an 
old and respected friend of the present writer. 
The most important Enderby voyages of discovery 
were under the command of Captain John Biscoe, who, 
like Weddell, was a naval officer. He left the Falkland 
Islands in 1830 in a brig named the Tula, with the cutter 
Lively y Captain Avery, in company, steering south, and 
before the end of December he was amongst pack ice and 
bergs. On December 29th he was off the Sandwich Land 
of Cook, which he was instructed to visit ; but no vestige 
of seal or sea elephant could be found. Biscoe, therefore, 
continued his voyage. On the 21st of January, 1831, 
he crossed the Antarctic Circle. By the 25th February 
the Tula was in 66° 8' S. and 43 0 54' W. In the morning 
there was appearance of land, in the intervals of snow 
squalls, with many bergs and ice fields round the ship. 
The icebergs became innumerable, and there was a strong 
N.E. swell. Captain Biscoe considered that he could 
proceed no further with safety. The land appeared to 
be like the North Foreland, the cliffs being about the 
same height, probably ice cliffs resting on land. From 
the fore top Captain Biscoe, with a good glass, could 
trace the coast for 30 or 40 miles. He made an effort 
to reach the land in a boat, but the ice was too closely 
packed. On February 28th, the latitude being 66° 7' S., 
longitude 49° 6' E., high land was again sighted, with 
black peaks rising above the snow. For two days an 
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