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problem in Antarctic exploration, it is too old a friend to 
lose sight of, and the next incident to be chronicled is 
the visit of two more of Enderby’s ships in 1825. This 
visit is described in the logs of the ships which were 
shown by Mr. Charles Enderby to Sir James Clark 
Ross twenty years later, and the similarity with Mor- 
rell’s account may be taken either as strong confirmation 
of his alleged visit in 1823, or as proof of his having ob- 
tained and adapted an early account of the landing in 
1825. The latter, we fear, is the more probable view. 
On December 10th, 1825, Captain Norris of the 
Sprightly, v/ith the Lively in company, came upon an 
island in 54 0 15' S. and 5 0 E., which he — apparently ig- 
norant of the search so often made for Bouvet’s Cape 
Circumcision — at once named Liverpool Island. An at- 
tempt to land was frustrated by a snowstorm. On the 
13th, another island was sighted, and named Thompson 
Island, its position being given as 53 0 56' S., 5°3o'E., 
and there were several rocks which were named The 
Chimnies. A landing was made on the 16th and the 
Union Jack hoisted on shore, but it is not stated on which 
of the two islands. Again on the 18th, a boat was sent out 
from each vessel to go round the island different ways, 
starting from the east end and meeting at the west end. 
Stormy weather came on and the boats, which had mean- 
while landed, were unable to get back to their ships 
until the 24th. They returned when the weather mod- 
erated with the skins of forty-eight seals. The log- 
states : 
“ We found by their report that seals are very scarce ; 
and the isle is not likely to produce many, the S. W. 
point being the only place where they can make a land- 
ing, as the boats w T ent entirely round the isle, and noth- 
