close-reefed topsails and reefed foresail. At noon we were in lat. 73° 10′ S., and long. 171° 26′ E., and nearly abreast of a high cape, the projecting base of Mount Lubbock, which I named Cape Jones, after my friend Captain William Jones of the Royal Navy. Cape Phillips, at the foot of Mount Brewster, was named after Lieutenant Charles Gerrans Phillips; and I had much satisfaction in now bestowing the names of the other officers of the expedition, by whose exertions these discoveries were made, upon the several capes and inlets we passed in our run close along the land to the northward. Much haze in the afternoon concealed the tops of the mountains, but the line of coast, with whose features we had become so familiar whilst contending against the southern gales we experienced in January, was very plainly in sight. Tucker Inlet was named after the master of the Erebus, as was Cape Cotter after that officer of the Terror; Cape Hallett after the purser of the Erebus, and Moubray Bay after the clerk in charge of the Terror; Cape McCormick, abreast of Possession Island, after the surgeon of the Erebus, and Robertson Bay, between Cape Adare and Cape Wood, after Dr. Robertson of the Terror.
I was desirous of making another attempt to land on the coast near Cape Adare, and with that object in view we stood towards the cape early the next morning, passing through many streams Feb. 21.of loose ice, until we at length came to a solid pack extending eight or nine miles from the shore, and