CONTENTS 



OF 



THE FIRST VOLUME 

 CHAPTER I 



THROUGH STORMY SEAS 



Page 



General Stowage — A Last Scene in New Zealand — Departure — On 

 Deck with the Dogs — -The Storm — The Engine-room Flooded 

 — Clearing the Pumps — Cape Crozier as a Station — Birds of 

 the South — ^A Pony's Aiemory — Tabular Bergs — An Incom- 

 parable Scene — Formation of the Pack — Movements of the 

 Floes I 



CHAPTER II 



IN THE PACK 



A Reported Island — Incessant Changes — The Imprisoning Ice — 

 Ski-ing and Sledging on the Floes — Alovement of Bergs — 

 Opening of the Pack — A Damaged Rudder — To Stop or not to 

 Stop — Nicknames — Ski Exercise — Penguins and Music — 

 Composite Floes — Banked Fires — -Christmas in the Ice — The 

 Penguins and the Skua — Ice Movements — State of the Ice- 

 house — Still in the Ice — Life in the Pack — Escape from the 

 Pack — ^A Calm — The Pack far to the North — Science in the 

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CHAPTER III 



LAND 



Land at Last — Reach Cape Crozier — Cliffs of Cape Crozier — 

 Landing Impossible — Penguins and Killers — Cape Evans as 

 Winter Station — The Ponies Landed — Penguins' Fatuous 

 Conduct — Adventure with Killer Whales — Habits of the 

 Killer Whale — Landing Stores — The Skuas Nesting — Ponies 

 and their Ways — Dangers of the Rotting Ice ■. . 53 



