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February 8.—Both parties started directly after breakfast; 
Priestley, taking Abbott and Dickason and a week’s provisions, 
went round west of the island, keeping on the piedmont ice, and 
I climbed the island with the theodolite, taking Levick and 
Browning with me. 
It was a clear day, but blowing a regular gale from the west, 
the wind from the plateau feeling very cold—an unpleasant day 
for theodolite work. By aneroid I made the height of the island 
1320 feet. We returned to camp about 7 P.M. 
February 9.—It came on to blow very hard in the morning, 
and we had to secure the tents with big stones on the skirting, 
the snow being all blown off. In the evening Browning got two 
penguins for the pot. 
February 10.—Still blowing very hard, too hard in fact to 
set up the theodolite. Priestley and party pulled in about 2 P.M. 
He said they had had a gale of wind the whole time, the wind 
only dropping for two hours. The moraine we saw from the 
top of the island appears to be the Priestley Glacier moraine. | 
They found some sandstone with fossil wood inclusions, but not 
‘such good specimens as we got inland. 
In the afternoon Priestley and I found a lot of shells, worm 
casts, and sponge spicules in little holes on the piedmont. 
February 11.—The wind dropped after breakfast, so Priest- 
ley, Dickason, and I sledged over to the hills north of us and 
camped by a lake on the southern slopes. Levick, Abbott, and 
- Browning, leaving their camp standing, examined Evans Coves 
on the S. Island. They found a small penguin rookery and a 
large number of seals on the ice foot. 
They also found a large number of old dead seals on the 
beach, one or two of the largest measuring 12 feet in length. 
February 12.—Heavy snow, wind, and drift all day. Levick 
and his party pulled in about 3 P.M. and camped near us. 
February 13.—Snowing all night, and although it eased this 
morning, it kept on all day, stopping our survey completely. 
In the evening we killed three penguins for food. Levick and 
party returned to the main depot. 
February 14 and 15.—Priestley and I spent the two days 
collecting and surveying. On the night of the 15th it began to 
snow, and, a strong plateau wind getting up, we spent the 16th 
in our tent, the drift being too thick to do anything. 
