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February 8. Both parties started directly after breakfast; 

 Priestley, taking Abbott and Dickason and a week's provisions, 

 went round west of the island, keeping on the piedmont ice, and 

 I climbed the island with the theodolite, taking Levick and 

 Browning with me. 



It was a clear day, but blowing a regular gale from the west, 

 the wind from the plateau feeling very cold an unpleasant day 

 for theodolite work. By aneroid I made the height of the island 

 1320 feet. We returned to camp about 7 P.M. 



February 9. It came on to blow very hard in the morning, 

 and we had to secure the tents with big stones on the skirting, 

 the snow being all blown off. In the evening Browning got two 

 penguins for the pot. 



February 10. Still blowing very hard, too hard in fact to 

 set up the theodolite. Priestley and party pulled in about 2 P.M. 

 He said they had had a gale of wind the whole time, the wind 

 only dropping for two hours. The moraine we saw from the 

 top of the island appears to be the Priestley Glacier moraine. 

 They found some sandstone with fossil wood inclusions, but not 

 such good specimens as we got inland. 



In the afternoon Priestley and I found a lot of shells, worm 

 casts, and sponge spicules in little holes on the piedmont. 



February n. The wind dropped after breakfast, so Priest- 

 ley, Dickason, and I sledged over to the hills north of us and 

 camped by a lake on the southern slopes. Levick, Abbott, and 

 Browning, leaving their camp standing, examined Evans Coves 

 on the S. Island. They found a small penguin rookery and a 

 large number of seals on the ice foot. 



They also found a large number of old dead seals on the 

 beach, one or two of the largest measuring 12 feet in length. 



February 12. Heavy snow, wind, and drift all day. Levick 

 and his party pulled in about 3 P.M. and camped near us. 



February 13. -'-Snowing all night, and although it eased this 

 morning, it kept on all day, stopping our survey completely. 

 In the evening we killed three penguins for food. Levick and 

 party returned to the main depot. 



February 14 and 15. Priestley and I spent the two days 

 collecting and surveying. On the night of the I5th it began to 

 snow, and, a strong plateau wind getting up, we spent the i6th 

 in our tent, the drift being too thick to do anything. 



