FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC 
In his chart, Ross shows no island at the south end of 
Joinville Land where D'Urville marked an isle 'supposee.' 
He thought D'Urville had seen this point only and not the 
low land round it, and so assumed that there was an 
island. Ross finding, as he thought, D'Urville in error, 
gallantly named the pinnacle D'Urville's monument, 'in 
memory of that enterprising navigator.' But Captain 
Robertson of the Active, by sailing round this land, has 
proved the 1 Isle Supposee ' does exist ; probably the Firth, 
called Firth of Tay by Captain Robertson, was filled with 
bergs when Ross passed, and so he would have no idea 
there was an island here. 
In the evening we were about nine miles N.E. of the 
most southerly of the Danger islets. Here we were on 
comparatively open water, with only scattered pieces of 
pack-ice, and the bergs were few and low. These bergs, 
about fifty and eighty feet above water, had apparently 
come off the coast opposite us. 
All night we steered about E. by N. At midnight we 
passed a small dome-shaped ice island, sea-washed and 
very slippery, with a regiment of penguins standing at 
attention on the top of it. As our game larder needed 
replenishing, we dropped a boat with two guns, and shot 
down the regiment. It was a very sad sight to see the 
down; they had 
poor beasts shot 
not the least 
cape this unfa- 
Even when they 
and fell down 
1 
idea how to es- 
miliar danger, 
were wounded 
the slippery ice- 
banks into the water, they immediately struggled to get 
