ch. xlviii] Biscoe — Balleny 
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The new discovery received the name of Graham 
Land after the First Lord of the Admiralty. It was 
an island or long promontory with a lofty mountain 
range occupying its interior, extending from an unknown 
distance in the Antarctic regions across the circle, and 
far into the south temperate zone. 
Very severe weather was encountered at the South 
Shetlands, and the Tula was in great danger, but she 
arrived safely at Berkeley Sound in the Falkland Islands 
on April 29th, 1832, with a cargo of sea-elephant skins. 
Another of Enderby's captains named Kempe, on 
board the Magpie in 1832, sighted land to the eastward 
of Enderby Land, which has been named Kempe Land, 
but no journal or report has been preserved. 
Enderby was not discouraged by some losses, and in 
1838 he determined, in conjunction with some other 
merchants, to send another expedition to the south. 
The captain had special instructions to push as far south 
as possible in hopes of discovering land in a high southern 
latitude. There were two vessels, the schooner Eliza 
Scott of 154 tons, commanded by John Balleny, and the 
cutter Sabrina, H. Freeman, Master. We have the 
narratives of Captain Balleny, and of John McNab, 
second mate of the Eliza Scott. On the 3rd December 
the two little vessels anchored in Chalky Bay, at the S.W. 
extremity of the middle island of New Zealand ; and on 
the 7th January, 1839, they proceeded on their Antarctic 
voyage. Running southwards through pack ice and 
amongst bergs, they had reached 68° S. by the 2nd 
February. On the 9th land was sighted in 66° 37' S. 
and the captain soon made out three islands. Next 
day Balleny stood towards the land, and made out high 
perpendicular cliffs, but was prevented from a nearer 
approach by the ice. The observed latitude was 66° 22' S. 
In the evening of the 12th Captains Balleny and Freeman 
approached the shore in the cutter's boat. The cliffs 
were perpendicular, the gullies filled with ice, and smoke 
was seen to be rising from the mountain peaks. Freeman 
jumped out and picked up a few stones, but there was 
no beach and he was up to his waist in water. The 
group consisted of five islands, three large and two small, 
the highest, called Young Island, rising to a peak to which 
