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ENDERBY’S NOTE ON SABRINA LAND, &c. [Feb. 22, 1858. 
land was sighted and marked in the American charts as Tatton 
North’s High Lands. 
I submit for the consideration *of the Council of the Society 
whether the discovery mentioned should not be more clearly 
marked on our charts, otherwise a question may at some future 
period arise as to the discoverer of the Southern Continent, since it 
has not yet been ascertained that Enderby Land is attached to 
that beforementioned, and in such case the Balleny Islands would 
not afford a claim of the nature of that set up. 
In presenting these Journals to the Society, the gentlemen with 
whom I was associated in the equipment of the expedition fully 
concur with me in opinion that they should be deposited with your 
Society, where they will be in safe custody and properly appre- 
ciated, and where reference can be made to them if requisite. 
I take this opportunity to state that I transmitted to the late 
Colonel Colquhoun, a member of your Council, an extract from the 
log-book of the ship “ Brisk,” belonging to the Southern Whale 
Fishery Company, which vessel I equipped, under the command of 
Captain Tapsell, from the Auckland Islands to the Antarctic Seas, in 
February 1850 ; and as I have neither seen nor heard that any notice 
has been taken of this voyage, I fear the paper has not come to 
hand. 
Captain Tapsell was absent about six weeks, sighted the Balleny 
Islands, and proceeded thence to the westward to the long. 143° 
in a considerably higher latitude than that followed by Com- 
modore Wilkes, without his having sighted land. As, however, 
I have not the Journal to refer to, I am unable to state if the 
weather was such as to enable him to see to any distance, but to the 
best of my recollection he was not impeded in his voyage by fogs. 
If the Society should deem the subject of importance, I feel sure 
that on application to Mr. J. D. Powles, Chairman of the Southern 
Whale Fishery Company, by Mr. T. H. Brooking, a member 
of your Council, an inspection of the Journal would be readily 
permitted. 
The above, together with the Journal of the “ Eliza Scott,” having been re- 
ferred to Kear-Admiral Sir George Back, as one of the Vice-Presidents, Sir 
George says, that “ having examined Mr. Balleny’s Journal, I can come to no 
other conclusion than that he is entitled to the discovery of the islands Avhich 
bear his name, including Sabrina Land, and that it would be an injustice to 
the memory and labours of that adventurous seaman to deprive him of the 
honour.” — E d. 
