Departure from Rio de Janeiro. Voyage to the Southern Coast of South Georgia. Discovery of the Marquis de Traversey Islands. Voyage to the Eastern Coasts of the South Sandwich Islands. Voyage in the Southern Antarctic Ocean. Arrival at Port Jackson. Report of the Mirnyi during her separation from the Vostok. Stay in Port Jackson.

22nd. At 6.0 a.m., with a light wind between south and east, I gave orders to weigh. We passed out between the fortress of Santa Cruz and the mountain named “Sugar-loaf”. At 10.0 a.m. the wind blew from seaward as usual in the day-time, owing to which we were unable to proceed either beyond or east of Raza Island and, not knowing the passage between Raza and Redonda Island, I decided to go on a starboard tack towards the Brazilian coast. At 11.0 a.m. we again altered course, and on this course we passed Raza Island, at a distance of half a mile to the north, which is in Lat. 23° 05′ 18″. When both vessels had passed out of these narrows we directed our course southwards to South Georgia, on the route by which La Pérouse, Vancouver and Colnett had sought for Isla Grande, discovered in 1675 by Antonio de la Rochè in Lat. 45°S. ^* The position of this island is now altered on the charts. ¹ At 4.0 p.m. the wind freshened, and we took in one reef in the topsails and struck the royal yards and mast: in the evening there was a heavy sea. We again took in a reef and took in the mizzen topsail. At night we sent up signals in order to indicate our position. The Mirnyi was following in our wake.