No doubt the following narrative will be received: with entire incredulity, but I think it well that the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in 'An Antarctic Mystery.' The public is free to believe them or not, at its good pleasure. No more appropriate scene for the wonderful and terrible adventures which I am about to relate could be imagined than the Desolation Islands, so called, in 1779, by Captain Cook. I lived there for several weeks, and I can affirm, on the evidence