despatches or some of your provisions and hence my attempts to regain the Cape, Failing in our repeated attempts to regain the Cape and seeing no prospect of our doing so this season, I landed the bulk of your letters and despatches on the lower point N.Y.E. (map) from your cairn on Littleton Island and where I hope they will be even more accessible to you than on this cape. After a heavy southerly gale yesterday we have succeeded in getting through the S.W. gales and if I succeed in getting back into clear water, I proceed homewards at the end of this month having cruised here all the navigable season in the event of your sending a boat party to Littleton Island. Trusts that you are