200 hp:ard island 



mentoes of this dismal spot, I made the best of my way across 

 the muddy and yielding plain, and through the glacier stream, 

 although the skull was almost more than I could carry, in 

 addition to rock specimens and a big vasculum. We got off 

 only just in time, for a considerable sea was running by the 

 time that we reached the ship. 



We were to have landed again on the following morning ; 

 but the wind shifted, and there was a thick fall of snow, 

 covering the deck to the depth of two inches, and rendering 

 the shore of a uniform white, excepting where a few black 

 precipitous rocks showed out here and there in relief. The 

 moraines were scarcely visible, and we realized how fortunate 

 we had been in having hit upon so tine a day for landing on 

 the island. 



We got under way at about 5.30 a.m. As we left the bay 

 we saw, even at this early hour, one of the wretched Portuguese 

 starting off to walk the beaches in search of his prey, the 

 miserable Elephants. 



