170 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
and succeeded in making a sketch of all the islands of 
the Balleny group from a distance of about nine miles. 
In this sketch the most prominent features are the lofty 
cone of Peak Freeman on Young Island and the smoke 
rising from an active volcano on Buckle Island. Beale 
Pinnacle, a rock off the eastern end of Borradaile Island, 
is described as rising from the water like a lighthouse. 
The course westward was made between the latitudes 
of 63° and 65° S. without any incident to break the 
usual succession of icebergs and fogs except a supposed 
sight of land on February 26th, which was afterwards 
believed to be merely fog hanging over an iceberg. 
Then on March 2nd, the ships being in 65° S. 12 1° E., 
land was sighted to the south, but no further particulars 
are given, either in Balleny’s log or in that of William 
Moore the chief mate of the Eliza Scott, the latter 
remarking only that “ the supposed land ” was not more 
than one mile to windward. Next day an attempt was 
made to get towards the land through the ice, but the 
pack was too heavy to penetrate, and although the “ ap- 
pearance of land ” was logged as visible beyond the ice on 
two occasions that day it does not seem to have been 
very decided. Although the name of the cutter Sabrina 
has been given to an appearance of land at this point, we 
cannot look upon its discovery as proved by the vague 
references made by the explorers. 
On March 13th an iceberg about 300 feet high was 
passed within a quarter of a mile in 61 0 S. 103 0 40' E., 
the weather being particularly fine and calm. About 20 
feet up the side of this a block of dark stone, about 
12 feet high and 6 feet wide embedded in the ice, was 
conspicuously visible, a circumstance that attracted the 
special attention of the artist mate MacNab and led 
