The pride and pleasure of participation in discovery were his forthwith.

A new passage through an intricate and dangerous Strait was found and charted; a whole archipelago was delineated, named, and taken possession of for the British nation.

The world's knowledge was increased.

There was something put down on the map which was not there before.

The contact with the islanders in the Strait gave a brisk element of adventure to the expedition; and certainly Papuan warriors are foes as wild and weird as any adventurer can desire to meet.