ENDERBY BROTHERS 
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Yet with all this against him, Biscoe observes that as 
the land seemed to trend toward the northeast he still 
hoped to reach it in some part free from ice. 
The southeasterly gales continued, the fact could not 
be overlooked that scurvy had broken out on board, the 
ship was a mass of ice, although now in 62° S., 
and at length, on April 4th, the hope of meeting 
the land was abandoned in 8o° E., and a course laid for 
New Zealand. By this time only three of the crew were 
able to stand, and it was no longer possible to beat 
against head winds. The carpenter died on April 24th, 
and on the 26th only one man of the crew was able to 
stand, and the ship had to be worked by him, the captain 
himself, two mates and a boy; it was hopeless to try to 
make New Zealand, and to save the ship and the sur- 
vivors of the crew, the Tula was headed for Van Die- 
men’s Land. Next day a second man died. On May 
8th the brig was off the unfamiliar coast of Tasmania, 
of which there were no proper charts, and things looked 
very black on board. Biscoe confided to his log : 
“ I endeavoured all in my power to keep up the spirits 
of those on board, and often had a smile on my face, 
with a very different feeling within.” 
After all her batterings, the Tula was at last safely 
moored off Hobart Town, on May 10th, 1831 ; the dying 
men were removed to a hospital on shore, and Biscoe was 
at last able to rest for a time, though the absence of the 
Lively was a heavy anxiety. As he entered the harbour 
he met the Eliza cutter, with Captain Weddell on board. 
When the Lively was separated from her consort 
in the storm she continued the cruise in the icy seas 
until deaths had reduced the ship’s company to Captain 
Avery, one seaman and a little boy whose hand had been 
