CHAPTER XV 
THE LAST ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF THE EREBUS AND TERROR 
“ We have had enough of action, and of motion we, 
Roll’d to starboard, roll’d to larboard, when the surge was 
seething free, 
HE first care on arriving at Berkeley Sound in the 
Falkland Islands was to send home dispatches and 
the scientific collections and to take steps for overhauling 
the ships. Both vessels were unloaded of all stores, 
hauled up as far as possible on the shore at the top of 
high water, and while beached their hulls were thor- 
oughly examined and repaired. At that date the small 
settlement in the Falklands could offer little in the way 
of its own resources except fresh meat, and even that the 
blue-jackets had to hunt for themselves, for the herds of 
cattle and horses roamed the island in an absolutely wild 
state. No spar suitable for making a new bowsprit for 
the Erebus could be obtained, but an urgent request had 
been sent on to the headquarters of the South American 
sqadron at Rio de Janeiro, and toward the end of June 
H. M. S. Carysfort commanded by Lord George Paulet 
arrived bringing all that was required to refit the expe- 
dition. It was the end of July before the Erebus and 
Terror had been refitted and were ready for sea. An- 
other month had still to be devoted to magnetic observa- 
tions on shore, and it was no easy task for the commander 
