After some little delay, Mr.Sidney Ross, the eldest son of Mr.George Ross, came off to meet us, and soon after, accompanied by the doctor and another officer, we went ashore." "On reaching the landing-stage, we found, hauled up for cleaning, etc., the _Spray_ of Boston, a yawl of 12.70 tons gross, the property of Captain Joshua Slocum.

He arrived at the island on the 17th of July, twenty-three days out from Thursday Island.

This extraordinary solitary traveler left Boston some two years ago single-handed, crossed to Gibraltar, sailed down to Cape Horn, passed through the Strait of Magellan to the Society Islands, thence to Australia, and through the Torres Strait to Thursday Island." The Keeling Cocos Islands, according to Admiral Fitzroy, R.N., lie between the latitudes of 11 degrees 50' and 12 degrees 12' S., and the longitudes of 96 degrees 51' and 96 degrees 58' E.They were discovered in 1608-9 by Captain William Keeling, then in the service of the East India Company.

The southern group consists of seven or eight islands and islets on the atoll, which is the skeleton of what some day, according to the history of coral reefs, will be a continuous island.

North Keeling has no harbor, is seldom visited, and is of no importance.