DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLANDS: THULE I. 189 



under Capt. Ole Jorgensen (see p. 141); here we ourselves attempted to go ashore but 

 were unable to do so owing to the heavy swell. Near Beach Point, however, we were 

 more successful, Dr E. H. Marshall and Mr T. J. Hart landing in a pram on a shore 

 composed of pebbles and boulders. The seal on the beach were found to be mainly 

 Weddell seal, about forty in all, together with two Elephant seal and several adult and 

 one young of the Leopard seal. The beach is evidently a resort for Leopard seal during 

 the breeding season, for it was littered with excreta containing penguin feathers. At 

 Beach Point there is a rookery of Ringed penguins, with some patches of green vegeta- 

 tion similar to those seen on other islands. The plant proved to be an alga and has been 

 identified by Mr G. Tandy as Prasiola crispa, a species of very wide distribution. Among 

 the earth in which this plant was growing two species of mites and a single insect, a 

 CoUembolan, were found. A sample of " red snow " (Chlamydomonas) was taken. Some 

 brackish pools, formed apparently by melted snow, appeared to be without life, but in 

 mud scraped from the undersides of stones lying in the water some ciliate Protozoa 

 were obtained. Geological specimens were collected, but unfortunately several of the 

 most characteristic types of rock did not occur at Beach Point. 



