146 SOUTH AGAIN : NEW ZEALAND AND THE CAPE 
Indeed, his lifelong friend, Archibald Smith,i writing on 
August 3, 1842, tells Hooker that the public have less 
interest in the expedition than should be if they understood 
its aims. ' But,' he adds, * Eoss will deserve a peerage if he 
gets to the pole, and I have got a motto from Virgil ready 
for him—'* Polo dimoverat umbram." ' And Dr. Sinclair, 
returning from New Zealand, found himself greatly in demand. 
He had seen the half fabulous Discoverers with his own eyes. 
People read so much fiction nowadays [he writes from 
Edinburgh in January 1843], and your labours have had 
sufficient of it to make a similar impression, that they 
were glad to hear a hving man and not a book express his 
readiness to swear he saw you going on a- discovering as daily 
work. 
Moreover, when in March 1843 Sir William Hooker obtained 
the Admiralty's permission to draw up for his ' Journal of 
Botany ' a general account of what Joseph had done, he found 
that already in Paris they had begun to publish the Botany 
of D'Urville's last voyage, including some of Joseph's best and 
newest plants, though without any text so far, while a specimen 
of the white Chionis, sent home by some member of the Expedi- 
tion, w^as bought by a German and described in Germany. 
Clearly there should have been a Committee, as in France, to 
issue a preliminary report, reserving full descriptions till the 
return of the Expedition. 
Sir William's article, when it appeared, pleased Captain 
Eoss and the officers generally, excepting Captain Crozier, 
who was much offended — so sailors love their ships— by the 
description of the Terror as a ' heavy sailer.' 
For the sake of contrast with to-day, an impression of 
Capetown in the forties may be recorded at some length, 
1 Archibald Smith (1813-72) was the only son of 'Smith of Jordan Hill.' 
He was Senior Wrangler in 1836, and entering Lincoln's Inn, became a dis- 
tinguished real property lawyer. His most living interest, however, remained 
in mathematics, both pure and applied, and his working out of the practical 
formulae for the correction of observations on board ship and especially for 
determining the effect of the iron in a ship on the compass, incorporated in an 
Admiralty Manual of 1862, were of the highest value. In 1865 he was awarded 
a gold medal by the Royal Society, of which he had been a Fellow since 1856. 
