iVbto ^ Mr Edward Baensfield’s Voyage. 345 
jected to a long sea voyage, and the action of a West India cli- 
mate, with success. 
I have, for the purpose of veiifying the foregoing experiment, 
again prepared two specimens, the one mutton and the other 
beef, and sent them out to the same island, with similar direc- 
tions, and I make no doubt of the result being equally satisfac- 
tory. I remain, &c. J* Stanley, 
Whitehaven, Feh. 7. 18^1. 
Art. XVII. — Notice of the Voyage q/* Edward Barnsfield^ 
Master of Ms Majestfs Ship Androrr^achey to New South 
Shetland 
.A-BOUt a twelvemonth ago, an English merchant brig, in 
performing a voyage to this port, made what they supposed to 
be land, several degrees to the southward of Cape Horn, and in 
a situation in which it is positively asserted that no land can ex- 
ist. From the difference in opinion of those on board the ves- 
sel, and, from some other circumstances, little credit was attach- 
ed to it at that time ; but the master being fully convinced that 
what had been seen was actually land, determined to put it beyond 
a doubt, should he come round again. He accordingly made the 
land again last October, and having sailed along it for some con- 
siderable distance, he returned about the beginning of December 
to this port, and laid before the Naval Commander in Chief here, 
such charts and views, as induced him to hire the same brig op 
account of Government, to complete the discovery. The com- 
mand of the expedition was given to Mr Edward Barnsfield, 
master of H. M. S. Andromache, with three midshipmen from 
the same ship, to assist him in his nautical researches; and as it 
was deemed necessary to send a medical officer, I went as a vo- 
lunteer on the occasion. We sailed from Valparaiso on the 20th 
of December 1819, but did not arrive on cruising ground till 
the 16th of January 1820, having been almost constantly ha- 
rassed with baffling winds and calms till we arrived in a high 
southern latitude. On that day, however, we had the good 
^ See this Journal^ vol. HI. p. 367, particularly p, 374. and Plate XII. of that 
volume. ' . 
