FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
bama chased her into Stanley, and there she has stopped 
ever since. Why, my informant did not explain. 
There may be said to be no loafers in Stanley ; even the 
arrival of the first of the Dundee whaling expedition 
could only muster a crowd of some half dozen thin, sun- 
burnt boys. Amongst these there was one elderly person, 
a tall, clerical-looking gentleman, wearing a white straw 
hat. This we found was the Rev. Mr. H , who came 
to Dundee after we had left, to try and get a berth on 
board one of the four ships. Finding they had sailed, he 
had come on here by steamer to see if there were still 
a chance of finding a passage to the Antarctic. 
We then called at the office of the Falkland Island 
Company to see if there was any news of our companion 
vessels. We thought that since we had been so unlucky in 
our weather they might have got out before us; but greatly 
to our surprise and delight we found that we were the'first 
out. We heard word of the Diana'; she started with us 
and followed us round Cape Wrath, but had to put into 
Queenstown for repairs. The Polar Star, that left Dundee 
the day after us, had not been heard of, and the Active 
had coaled at Madeira, so we expected to see her soon. 
A Norwegian barque, the Jason, that started from Norway 
at the same time as we did, with the intention of hunting 
the right whale in our company, had taken 200 tons of 
coal at Madeira, and was supposed to be steaming most 
of the way out, but since Madeira she had not been 
heard of. 
Mr. Baillon, the Falkland Island Company's colonial 
agent, who gave us this information, received us in a very 
