1911] MEAT STORES 63 
last night, and celebrated the occasion with a great house 
warming. We have also had time to put up the meteorological 
screen and dig a beautiful ice house in a small stranded berg 
on the south shore. Unfortunately, the day after the larder was 
filled a big surf came rolling in and the berg began to break 
up. We had only just time to rescue the forty penguins with 
which we had stocked it, and carry the little corpses to a near 
ice house built of empty cases filled with ice and well out of 
reach of the sea. The whole beach we are on is a penguin 
rookery in summer, and has been so for generations. We are 
constantly reminded of it, in fact so forcibly is this so inside 
the hut, that before putting down the floor Levick dressed the 
ground with bleaching-powder. He did this so thoroughly, and 
inhaled so much of the gas, that he had to retire to his bunk 
blind in both eyes, with a bad sore throat, and all the symptoms 
of a heavy cold in his head. 
This afternoon Abbott, Priestley, Levick, and I climbed to 
the top of Cape Adare, and certainly the view over the bay was 
lovely, the east side of the peninsula descending in a sheer 
cliff to the Ross Sea. We collected some fine bits of quartz 
and erratic boulders about 1000 feet up, and Levick got some 
good photographs of the Admiralty Range. On the way down 
I found some green alga on the rocks. 
Monday, March 6.—We set to work on the coal and stores 
and carried everything up to the hut, stacking them on the 
weather side. 
We have now settled down into a regular routine; we turn 
out at 7 A.M., have breakfast at 8 A.M., dinner at 1 P.M., and 
supper at 7 P.M. 
The weather is fairly fine, the temperature keeping be- 
tween 18° and 20° F., but with a cold east wind. Loose pack 
sets into the bay with the flood and drifts out with the ebb 
tide. 
March 9.—We had a most magnificent surf breaking on 
the western shore over a fringe of grounded pack, throwing 
spray and bits of ice 30 or 40 feet into the air. 
On the rith and 12th we had our first blizzard with heavy 
drift and the hut shook a little, but nothing gave way. The 
remaining penguins began gathering in parties on the sea shore, 
which looked as though they were going to leave us for the 
