uties in civil life. Pennell temporarily paid off the seamen
who had joined in New Zealand, and took the ship away to survey Admiralty
Bay in the Sounds according to arrangements made with the New Zealand
Government. During this operation we had the great misfortune to lose by
drowning Stoker Petty Officer Robert Brissenden.

Finally the little "Terra Nova" filled up with coal and left for the
South to pick up Scott and his expedition. She was once more under my
command as her original Captain, Pennell very gracefully and unselfishly
standing down to the position of second in command.

The programme included an extensive sounding cruse, guided to some degree
by what Professor David of Sydney University wished for, to throw further
light on the great earth folds. The voyage was like its predecessors,
except that we purposely kept in Longitude 165 W. to sound over new
portions of the ocean, every opportunity being taken to gain fresh
information and fulfil the requirements of the biological programme too.
We had hardly our share of gales this voyage, and although we expected to
meet with the pack in about 66 S. Latitude, it was not reached until we
had attained the 69th parallel--two degrees farther South than we had
found it in the "Terra Nova"'s first two voyages.

The only other expedition that had explored the Eastern part of the Ross
Sea so far was that under Ross in the "Erebus" and "Terror." We did not
gain anything by forcing the pack so far East, however, for we
encountered a heavy belt of ice through which we fought our way for 400
miles.

The weather mostly served us well, and great credit is due to Rennick,
Lillie, and Pennell for their sounding, biological, and magnetic work
respectively--they were indefatigable, and even though it blew hard on
occasions, thanks to Rennick's expert handling of the Lucas machine we
obtained several soundings in 3000 fathoms when less ardent hydrographers
would have surrendered to the bad weather.

January 15 found us passing through loose pack--sometimes the ship was in
large open leads--we stopped on one of these and sounded. To our surprise
we found 368 fathoms, volcanic rock--in 72 degrees 0 minutes S., 168
degrees 17 minutes W. we found the depth 2322 fathoms, so we had struck
the continental shelf right enough in Latitude 73 degrees. By 8 p.m. we
were in even shallower water--in fact we discovered a shoal in only 158
fathoms--it was a great discovery for us, and Lilli