1912] PENGUINS 269 
Jan. 5, 1913, averaging only 24 miles a day, and burning over 
Ls seven tons of coal for each daily run. 
Now we were confronted by small belts of ice 
composed of floes 15 to 20 feet thick and 100 feet 
in diameter. ‘This ice was so hard that the ship could not break 
it. Whenever we collided with a floe the Terra Nova shook fore 
and aft, the officer in the crow’s nest experiencing the most vio- 
lent concussions. 
On this day a penguin chased us for over an hour, crying out 
ludicrously whenever one of us imitated its call. The little 
creature became quite exhausted, as we were steaming through 
lighter ice at the time and it had to swim steadily after us. The 
poor bird was unable to reach the ship, as the ‘ kick’ of the pro- 
peller swirled it away whenever it caught us up. As often as this 
happened the penguin would struggle on to a floe and reel about 
like a drunken man, until finally it lay still, thoroughly defeated. 
We were completely beset with ice on January 6 and 7, and 
the officers spent their time working for Lillie, ob- 
Jan. 6 and mah 
7, 1913, 77° +« taining plankton and water-bottle samples at many 
go’ S.,166° different depths. 
Be: Lillie put out his twenty-four mesh net at 1000 
metres, and obtained a lot of specimens, including a fine jelly-fish. 
On January 8, the ice opening up, we proceeded slowly on 
our way. We passed close alongside a low hummocky iceberg 
which had three Emperor penguins on it. They must 
Jan. 8, fore have been there some weeks, as the surface of the 
fee, yw. berg was much soiled and the snow trodden about 
over a great area. The iceberg was too high for the 
birds to have regained had they once left it. Two of the Em- 
perors were very thin; the third, an enormous bird, was 
moulting and one could not make out what sort of condition he 
was in. 
Until January 14 progress was painfully slow, but on this 
day the ship worked through into looser ice. The pack was 
eventually cleared on January EG ins Bat, \94° so’ Sy Long. 
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The night of January 17-18 was very still and a belt of 
stratus cloud settled down, forming a thick fog; the ship never- 
theless was worked through small ice belts and she rounded 
Cape Bird on the morning of the 18th. About breakfast time 
