Chapter 16: XV

XV On the twelfth we made sail from Christmas Harbour retracing our way to the westward, and leaving Marion’s Island, one of Crozet’s group, on the larboard. We afterward passed Prince Edward’s Island, leaving it also on our left, then, steering more to the northward, made, in fifteen days, the islands of Tristan d’Acunha, in latitude 37° 8′ S, longitude 12° 8′ W. This group, now so well known, and which consists of three circular islands, was first discovered by the Portuguese, and was vi…