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to find exercise and occupation for the men. A piece of 
unenclosed ground had hitherto served as the burial 
place for the settlement, and this the blue-jackets were 
set to work to surround by a stone wall not likely soon 
to be destroyed, for it was seven feet high and seven feet 
thick. To the newly-enclosed cemetery the sailors re- 
moved the remains of Matthew Brisbane, who had been 
in charge of the cutter which accompanied Weddell on 
his great voyage to the south. The colony at that time 
had a total resident population amounting to only 46. 
While the Antarctic ships were lying in Berkeley Sound 
Captain Allen Gardiner, a retired naval officer, with his 
family arrived there in a schooner and waited for an op- 
portunity to cross to Patagonia and prepare the way for 
a mission to the South American natives. The touching 
story of his efforts to bring Christianity to the Pata- 
gonians and his tragic fate are amongst the classics of 
the history of missions. It so happened that forty years 
afterwards the mission vessel bearing his name rescued 
from shipwreck the leader of a projected Italian Ant- 
arctic expedition. 
At the request of the governor, Ross spent a week in 
examining the harbour of Port Louis, the site of the ex- 
isting settlement in Berkeley Sound and Port William, 
somewhat farther to the southeast. He strongly recom- 
mended the latter as in every way more suitable for the 
seat of government, and the present town of Stanley is 
situated in Port William accordingly. 
Dr. Hooker made a careful survey of the botany of 
the islands and drew attention particularly to the gigantic 
sea-weeds which fringe the harbours and the remarkable 
tussock grass characteristic of the rocky shores. 
A magnetic station was left at Port Louis when the 
