some of the instruments narrowly escaped serious injury. No
communication with the Resolution was possible for those on shore.

She was the only ship in the harbour which rode out the gale without
dragging her anchors.

On November 10 the Discovery entered the bay. She had sailed on August
1, and would have come in a week sooner but had been blown off the coast
by the late gale. She also required caulking, which detained the
expedition some time.

On November 30 the two ships sailed together. The Resolution had now on
board, in addition to her former stock of animals, two bulls and two
heifers, two horses and two mares, two rams, several ewes and goats, and
some rabbits and poultry--all of them intended for New Zealand,
Otaheite, and the neighbouring islands, or other places where there
might be a prospect of their proving useful. The course steered was
about south-east. Before long a heavy squall carried away the
Resolution's mizzen-topmast; and a mountainous sea made the ship roll so
much that it was with difficulty the animals on board could be
preserved. Owing to this, and to the cold, several goats and sheep
died.

On December 12 two islands were seen about five leagues apart. These,
with four others which lie in the same latitude, about nine degrees of
longitude more to the east, were discovered by two French navigators in
1772. Cook now bestowed the name of Prince Edward's Island on the two
he had just discovered, and those of the French officers on the four
others. They were mostly covered with snow, and where the ground seemed
free from it lichen or a coarse grass was the only herbage.

On leaving Prince Edward's Island a course was shaped to fall in with
Kerguelen's Land. On the evening of the 24th an island of considerable
height and the next day other islands were seen. As the ships ranged
along the coast a terrific sea rolled in on the shore, placing them in
great danger, and both had considerable difficulty in weathering the
points and reefs they met with. Though it was midsummer the weather was
as cold as it is generally during the winter in the British Channel. At
last a harbour was discovered, into which the ships beat and found good
anchorage, an abundance of water, innumerable penguins and other birds,
as also seals, which were so unacquainted with human beings that they
allowed themselves to be knocked on the head without attempting to
escape. The casks were immediately landed to