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Discoveries, even though they included a new conti- 
nent, would not fill the hungry holds of the sealers, so 
Biscoe made for the South Shetlands, where he expected 
that “ the March bulls would be coming up.” On March 
5th the Tula was securely anchored in the land-locked 
harbour of New Plymouth, while Biscoe worked among 
the islands in the cutter collecting a scanty harvest of sea- 
elephants. Pie returned on April 2nd, and the mate of 
the Tula reported that on one occasion a heavy swell had 
set into the harbour and menaced the ship. Preparations 
were accordingly made to get away as soon as possible, 
the Lively to proceed direct to England, while the inde- 
fatigable Biscoe was to take the brig off to the nearest 
sperm-whaling ground to fill up with oil. Everything 
was ready for departure on April 10th, but before the 
anchors were got up the wind shifted to the northeast 
and sent in a terrific swell, which the Lively rode in 
safety, but the greater draught of the Tula caused her 
to strike the ground in the trough of the huge waves. 
So serious did the situation become that the brig had to 
be abandoned, her rudder being broken and the breakers 
making a clean breach over the vessel. She must have 
been a stoutly-built craft, however, for she was not stove 
in, and when the weather moderated the rudder was tem- 
porarily hung with ropes and on April 29th, 1832, after a 
stormy passage, the Tula reached Berkeley Sound in the 
Falklands for repairs. 
At the Falklands the two vessels again lost sight of 
each other and on touching at Santa Catarina in Brazil, 
Biscoe learned that the poor Lively, after following him 
round the world, had come to grief at last in the Falk- 
lands, where her crew remained while the Tula anchored 
in the Thames on January 30th, 1833. 
