CHAPTEE IV 
THE VOYAGE OF THE EREBUS AND TERROR '. 
PASSING IMPRESSIONS 
For reconstructing the history of the four years' voyage, 
abundant materials exist. The official account is Eoss's 
book in two volumes, ' A Voyage of Discovery and Eesearch 
in the Southern and Antarctic Eegions, during the Years 
1889-43 ' (John Murray, 1847).i 
This abounds in good matter ; not even the full-dress style 
of the period, very conscious of its epaulets, can mask the 
essential interest of these visits to the young colonies of the 
South, to the solitary fastnesses of oceanic life, and the unima- 
gined wonders of an ice-world in a ' furthest south ' four degrees 
beyond any previous record. 
Next comes Hooker's MS. Journal, upon which he drew for 
some of the material of his letters home. These letters, or 
1 To this Hooker contributed (from his Flora Antarctica) botanical accounts 
of Kerguelen's Land, I. iv. pp. 83-7 ; Auckland Island, I. vi. pp. 144-8 ; 
Campbell Island, I. vi. pp. 158-63; the Falklands, II. ix. pp. 261-77, 
including an account of the Tussac Grass, p. 261 ; Hermite Island (Fuegia), 
' the great botanical centre of the Antarctic Ocean,' II. x. pp. 288-302 ; 
and Cockbum Island (in the South Shetlands), II. xii. pp. 335-42, together 
with a description of the Fossil wood in Van Diemen's Land, II. i. 
pp. 5-11, and of hunting wild cattle in the Falklands, II. ix. pp. 
245-53. 
Most of the illustrations are by J. E. Davis, Second Master of the Terror ; 
nine ar^from Hooker's drawings, some signed, some marked in his own hand in 
the copy of the book given him by Ross : these are Mount Minto and Mouut 
Adam, I. chap. vi. ; Cape Crozier and Mount Terror I. viii. (unsigned); Panorama 
of the Great Barrier,!. Appendix (unsigned) ; Seal Hunting on the Ice, 11. ii. (the 
engraved signature is queried in pencil) ; Catching the Great Penguins, II. iv. (the 
central figure in the black hat is pencilled Bates) ; Mode of Pushing through the 
Packduring a Fog,IL iv. (unsigned); Tussac Grassof Falkland Islands, II, viii, ; 
Himting Wild Cattle in the Falkland Islands, II. ix. ; ' Balsam-Bog ' Pfant 
{Bolaz Gleharia), Falkland I.^Iands, II, xi. 
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