Quite right, Whiskery: I've just painted the ceiling after reading Macfarlane's contribution re Beaufort Island. In short, he's been caught out again. At pages 610 and 611 of The Erebus Papers he refers to the same passages that I did. So how does he avoid the obvious contradiction and avoid making his hero look like a liar? Answer: Via the simple expedient of yet another piece of deception, in that Macfarlane omits the sentence in the report that reveals the contradiction, that being the one that clearly states that Mulgrew saw Beaufort Island.