330 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
and there was some risk of her being carried past 
Australia and failing to beat back to it. She anchored 
in King George’s Sound, Western Australia on April ist. 
She had been at sea for eighty-two days, making such 
magnetic observations as were possible in a small vessel 
tossing on tumultuous seas and battling with head-winds. 
Three weeks were spent at Albany, and on April 20th 
the Pagoda set sail and proceeded across the Indian 
Ocean to Mauritius, continuing the magnetic observa- 
tions, and completed her voyage at Cape Town on June 
20th, 1845. During this voyage Moore remarks that more 
icebergs were seen than in the three Antarctic trips of 
the Erebus and Terror, and he referred with satisfaction 
to the fact that he had run through more degrees of longi- 
tude south of 60 0 S. than any previous voyager. 
The cruise of the Pagoda filled an important gap, and 
it remains memorable for the fact that it was the last 
Antarctic expedition carried in a sailing ship without the 
help of steam. Thus terminated the greatest era in the 
history of maritime discovery, and the scroll on which 
Prince Henry the Navigator began to write early in the 
fifteenth century was rolled up all unconsciously by Lieu- 
tenant Moore, R. N., in the middle of the nineteenth. 
Except for the short cruise of Enderby’s ship, the Brisk, 
in 1850, and the momentary swoop of the Challenger in 
1874, it was more than sixty years before serious explora- 
tion in the southern ice was resumed. 
In exploration as in physics there is a law of inertia. 
It is invariably hard to start a new effort to extend knowl- 
edge in any direction, but when once begun the tendency 
is to continue unless stopped by some external force. 
The brilliant voyages of Ross and Wilkes seemed, both 
from the discoveriej that were made and from the acute- 
