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Land he made no reference to that fact in his own book 
or in the atlas accompanying it. 
Palmer well deserved any kindly attention shown by 
Bellingshausen, and we feel almost sorry that it was his 
brother, Captain A. S. Palmer, who was the hero of the 
pleasing little description by Dr. Webster of H. M. S. 
Chanticleer, to which vessel a similar service was per- 
formed in Tierra del Fuego eight years later: 
“ When he made his appearance on board the brig 
with Captain Foster, we took him for another Robinson 
Crusoe in the shape of some shipwrecked mariner. He 
was a kind and good-hearted man and, thinking that 
they would be a treat to us, had brought with him a 
basket of albatross’ eggs, which were to us a most accept- 
able present,” 
The Stonington fleet returned in the following year, 
when Palmer in a stouter vessel, the James Monroe of 
eighty tons, continued the exploration of the land named 
after him. Unfortunately, Fanning, whose description 
is the only one we know of, is deplorably vague as to 
positions, and it is hard to make sense of his statement : 
“ After proceeding to the southward, he met ice fast and 
firmly attached to the shore of Palmer’s Land; he then 
traced the coast to the eastward, keeping as near the shore 
as the ice would suffer ; at times he was able to come along 
shore, at other points he could not approach within from 
one to several miles, owing to the firm ices, although it 
was in December and January, the middle summer 
months in this hemisphere. In this way he coasted along 
this continent upwards of fifteen degrees, viz., from 64° 
and odd, down below the 49th of west longitude. The 
coast, as he proceeded to the eastward, became more 
clear of ice, so that he was able to trace the shore better ; 
