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Wilkes’s return from his southern cruise. The whole 
matter is confused and difficult to follow. 
When Biscoe subsequently returned to England he 
fell into poor circumstances and died in 1848 in such 
depth of poverty that his widow and four children were 
only saved from starvation by a timely subscription got 
up by seafaring men. 
In 1893 Mr. J. G. Foxton communicated to the Mel- 
bourne Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of 
Australasia a paper entitled “ Notes of a long-forgotten 
Antarctic voyage in 1833 ” which were set down from 
his recollection of the expedition on which he himself 
had sailed. The expedition was in two ships, the Hope- 
well and the Rose, belonging to Messrs. Enderby, under 
the command of Lieutenant Binstead, R. N. They 
discovered land in jo° S. between io° and 20° W. and 
then the Rose was crushed in the ice and all hands 
escaped in the Hopewell. The land had been seen a few 
years earlier by a Russian expedition, the reports of which 
Binstead had been sent out to confirm. The paper is 
interesting as an example of the tricks that memory can 
play sixty years after the event. For Hopewell we must 
read Hopeful and for Binstead we must read Biscoe, 
and we must add about fifty degrees to the longitude 
before we can realise that the long-forgotten voyage was 
that of Biscoe and Rea, a contemporary account of 
which would be such interesting reading. Perhaps Mr. 
Foxton’s memory for incidents may have been stronger 
than for names and positions, but we cannot trust it, and 
only mention his account because it has already been cited 
in books of reference and at first sight it might appear 
as if the Coats Land discovered by Mr. W. S. Bruce in 
1904 had been seen seventy years before. 
