James Weddell (1787-1834) is probably best known as the namesake
of the Weddell Sea which he discovered in February 1823 on his
third Antarctic voyage. In the same month he also set a
'furthest south' of 74 deg 15 ' S, 34 deg 16 ' W. His ship was
the Jane; accompanying it was the Beaufoy, a 65-ton cutter whose
master was Matthew Brisbane, a seafaring man of Perth. Some
years after this historic voyage Brisbane ended up in the
Falkland Islands where he was in charge of the British
settlement there. Things were in a confused state at the time
and on August 26, 1833 Brisbane was "attacked in his house by
some of the Argentinians and Indians and was killed... His body,
roughly buried by the Indians, was disinterred in 1842 by
Captain James Clark Ross and reburied with a wooden headstone,
inscribed:(Source: A. G. E. Jones, Notes & Queries 1971,
reprinted in Polar Portraits, Whitby: Caedmon, 1992, pp. 111-13)
'To the MEMORY of Mr. Matthew Brisbane who was barbarously
murdered on the 26th August 1833. In the command