92 Soiitheru Cross. 



I have not put much faith in this I'eport, but to-day I actually saw it 

 myself. The second mate and I had this morning gone after a Seal. I 

 fired an explosive bullet into its head, so that the entire skull was 

 smashed, and, in consequence, there could be no question of life or con- 

 sciousness remaining in it. Yet, while the mate was skinning it, it kept 

 moving all the time ; and, at last, when it was more than half skinned, 

 and even the two fore-flippers with their large arteries were cut oft' from 

 the body, it jumped so high that it was perfectly clear off the ice. 



Fehiiiari/ 2nd. — N^o Penguins seen to-day and very few of any other 

 birds. The Doctor killed his first Seal to-day, and I killed two, all of the 

 common kind. 



February Sirl. — Still lying hard-and-fast in the ice. Fine weather. The 

 whole forenoon I was away to the north, far away from the ship, looking 

 for Seals. I killed three. One was a male of the thick-necked species. 



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ADELIA PENGUINS ON THE ICE. 

 (By inrmission oj Sir George Newnes, Bart.) 



which, like the last I killed, lay far out in the middle of a large floe. He 

 had got his new fur, and was the finest I have got as yet. The stomach 

 was quite full of food, consisting solely of Octopus. After supper, I was 

 out in an opening in the ice and dragged with my Plankton-net, but got 

 nothing, neither animals nor plants. 



February Qth. — Caught the first young Penguin of the smaller species. 

 It was nearly full grown. Saw a number of Penguins to-day. This 

 afternoon we caught one of the Emperors. My bag to-day was two 

 common Seals, and two Silver Petrels. One of the Seals swam near the 

 ship. His stomach was full of shrimps. It was a young male. 



February 7th. — Before we left the place where we had been moored last 

 night, the second mate and two of the crew killed a Seal and two small 

 Penguins. These last were moulting, and were found in holes in a large 

 hummock, where they had apparently sought refuge for some time. The 

 men also found other holes, full of feathers and droppings, where Penguins 



