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stout little schooner righted herself and sustained no 
serious damage. The Sabrina was never heard of 
again. By September 17th the Eliza Scott was safe 
once more in the port of London in time to report the 
result of her discoveries to Captain James Clark Ross, 
who was on the point of sailing with the Erebus and 
Terror. 
Balleny’s cruise proved for the first time the exist- 
ence of land within the Antarctic circle south of New 
Zealand, and by means of it the firm of Enderby forged 
still more links in the strong chain of evidence that 
either the edge of an extensive continent or a long series 
of islands lay to the south of the Indian Ocean just 
within or on the Antarctic circle, portions of which 
appeared in the Balleny Islands on the east, Enderby 
Land on the west, and at Kemp Land and possibly 
Sabrina Land between the two. 
In 1847 the Messrs. Enderby obtained from the British 
Government a concession for the exclusive possession of 
the Auckland Islands as a whaling station, and the 
Southern Whale Fishery Company was established. At 
least one important voyage of exploration resulted, but 
it has been almost lost sight of by the unaccountable loss 
of the documents given by Mr. Charles Enderby to a 
member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society 
for preservation in the library. In mentioning this fact 
at a meeting of the Society in 1858, Mr. Enderby said that 
in February, 1850, Captain Tapsell left the Aucklands in 
the ship Brisk, sighted the Balleny Islands and proceeded 
thence to the westward as far as the meridian of 143 0 E. 
in a considerably higher latitude than that followed by 
Wilkes, and without sighting any land. 
