TABLE MOUNTAIN, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
CHAPTER YI. 
Simon’s Bay, Cape of Good Hope, to Marion and Crozet Islands, 
to Kerguelen Land and the Heard Islands, the Antarctic 
"Regions, and* to Melbourne, Australia. 
Simon’s Town — -Visit to Capo Town — Discovery of diamonds — From 
Simon’s Bay to Table Bay round the Cape of Storms — Anchor in 
Table Bay — The Challenger's ball — Beturn ball by the residents — 
Return to Simon’s Bay — Leave the Cape — The Agulhas current— 
The “ roaring forties ” — Christmas Day 1873 — Sight and land on 
Marion Island — Vast number of albatross and other sea-birds — 
Prince Edward’s Island— Sight of the Crozet Islands— Passage to 
Kerguelen Land— Arrival at and description of the island — Leave 
Christmas Harbour— The scenery — Anchor in Betsy Cove — From 
thence to Royal Sound — Three Island Bay — Greenland Harbour 
— Cascade Reach — Hopeful Bay — Rhodes Harbour — The seal 
fisheries— Return to Christmas Harbour— Penguin rookeries— 
The Arch Rock — Leaving Kerguelen for the south — The Heard 
Islands— Description of the land— Leave the Heard Islands— The 
first Antarctic iceberg— In the icy regions— The icebergs and pack 
ice— Birds— Cross the Antarctic Circle— Early explorers of these 
inhospitable regions — Wilkes’ Termination Land— The Aurora 
Australis— An Antarctic gale— Enter the pack— No signs of land 
— Leave the pack — Dredging — A second gale — Shape our course 
