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ART. I.-A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24. Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-fourth Degree of Latitude: and a Visit to Terra del Fuego, with a Particular Account of the Inhabitants. To which is added, much Useful Information on the Coasting Navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent Lands, with Charts of Harbours, &c. By JAMES WEDDELL, Esq. Master in the Royal Navy. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row. 1825.

WHILE Parry and Franklin, in the service of the British government, were prosecuting their discoveries within the Arctic Circle, the writer of this book, with no other motive than his own love of enterprise and adventure, was exploring the icy seas of the south. It could not be expected that he should bring back such a rich collection of facts and observations, as has been made in the expeditions to the neighbourhood of the opposite pole, equipped and provided at the public cost, for the sole purpose of discovery. His voyage has, however, not been without its fruits; he has succeeded in penetrating more than three degrees of latitude farther than any former navigator; he has verified many curious facts, and made some important additions to the sum of geographical knowledge. His narrative is that of a well informed, intelligent man, who observes all that is worth observing in such a voyage. The journals of all professed seamen, however, and this among the number, have many passages, where we might fancy we were reading a log-book, and which entertain us with the agreeable detail of the courses of the winds, the variations of the weather, and the different tacks of the vessel. These, though a little dull to the general reader, may sometimes be of use to the future navigator-at all events, they give an air of credibility to the narrative, and are, in some sort, the vouchers of the writer's veracity.

The object of Capt. Weddell's voyage was to obtain a cargo of skins of the fur-seal. He left England in September, 1822, VOL. II.

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in the brig Jane, of 160 tons, with a crew of twenty-two officers and men under his command, accompanied by the cutter Beaufoy of 65 tons, with a crew of thirteen, commanded by Mr. Matthew Brisbane. Both vessels were fitted out in the ordinary way, and provisioned for two years. Capt. Weddell, on sailing from London, had not expected to arrive at so high a latitude as it was his good fortune to reach, and had therefore provided himself only with such nautical instruments as are in common use; they were however of the best construction.

On the voyage he touched at Bonavista, one of the Cape de Verde Islands. Here is a population of about three thousand, excessively indolent, living miserably on a fertile soil, and dwelling mostly in huts. The slaves are numerous, and are worked hard and treated with uncommon severity by the lazy masters, many of whom, as it should seem from this narrative, are no whiter than themselves. The governor, a native of Portugal, dressed in a general's uniform, whom Capt. Weddell found on board a schooner of war in the bay, on hearing that he wanted a supply of poultry, sent him to make a bargain with his lady. He accordingly proceeded to the palace, but found that a poultrymerchant, who had the honour of being a governor's lady, was not to be approached without extraordinary formalities. An armed sentinel at the door refused to admit him until assured that his intentions were merely pacific and commercial; and after the same explanation with two others he succeeded in arriving into the presence of her ladyship, who was in the poultry-yard, inspecting her stock of pigs, turkeys, and hens. Capt. Weddell purchased a number of lean fowls, which, for his consolation, her ladyship assured him were exceedingly fat and cheap.

In latitude 14° S. Capt. Weddell fell in with a Portuguese schooner bound to Bahia, with a cargo of two hundred and fifty slaves. The males were crowded together in the hold, almost suffocated with the confined air and torrid heat, while the women and children were seated on the lee-side of the deck, many of them fastened by iron shackles.

When arrived at the fifty-eighth degree of south latitude, the vessels found themselves among the ice islands, and on the 16th of January they came close under the shore of the South Orkneys. The appearance of the coast is terrific. Almost every where the islands rise into lofty peaks, covered with snow, looking like the mountain summits of a drowned continent, which yet tower above the waters. In some places these summits present almost every irregularity of shape and size; in others a multitude of neighbouring ones rising to nearly an equal