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Jan. 5, 1913, averaging only 24 miles a day, and burning over 



7 i66 8> 4$w scven tons f coa l f r eac h daily rur i. 



Now we were confronted by small belts of ice 

 composed of floes 15 to 20 feet thick and 100 feet 

 in diameter. This ice was so hard that the ship could not break 

 it. Whenever we collided with a floe the Terra Nova shook fore 

 and aft, the officer in the crow's nest experiencing the most vio- 

 lent concussions. 



On this day a penguin chased us for over an hour, crying out 

 ludicrously whenever one of us imitated its call. The little 

 creature became quite exhausted, as we were steaming through 

 lighter ice at the time and it had to swim steadily after us. The 

 poor bird was unable to reach the ship, as the ' kick ' of the pro- 

 peller swirled it away whenever it caught us up. As often as this 

 happened the penguin would struggle on to a floe and reel about 

 like a drunken man, until finally it lay still, thoroughly defeated. 



We were completely beset with ice on January 6 and 7, and 

 the officers spent their time working for Lillie, ob- 



Jan. 6 and . . r , , 



7, 1913, 71 taming plankton and water-bottle samples at many 

 iff s., '166 different depths. 



Lillie put out his twenty- four mesh net at 1000 



metres, and obtained a lot of specimens, including a fine jelly-fish. 



On January 8, the ice opening up, we proceeded slowly on 



our way. We passed close alongside a low hummocky iceberg 



which had three Emperor penguins on it. They must 



J a ?- 8 > wi* have been there some weeks, as the surface of the 



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767 4! W. berg was much soiled and the snow trodden about 

 over a great area. The iceberg was too high for the 

 birds to have regained had they once left it. Two of the Em- 

 perors were very thin; the third, an enormous bird, was 

 moulting and one could not make out what sort of condition he 

 was in. 



Until January 14 progress was painfully slow, but on this 

 day the ship worked through into looser ice. The pack was 

 eventually cleared on January 16 in Lat. 74 50' S., Long. 

 177 15' E. 



The night of January 17-18 was very still and a belt of 

 stratus cloud settled down, forming a thick fog; the ship never- 

 theless was worked through small ice belts and she rounded 

 Cape Bird on the morning of the i8th. About breakfast time 



