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arch, and Ponting promised himself some particularly pleasing 

 views when the sun returned. 



Later we went over to the tunnel berg, which Wright 

 and I surveyed in January. It had also broken up, and had 

 tilted up some twenty feet on the southern side, owing to 

 readjustments in the equilibrium. The once vertical tunnel 

 was now only half its length, and lying at an angle of 45 

 (see Fig. p. 97). 



Two seals were lying in the lee of a small berg near by. 

 As we approached they took to the mushy water immediately 

 surrounding the berg. They lay there on the sea ice sub- 

 merged by the pressure of the berg above it, being just under 



The Arch Berg just before it fell in and became the Castle Berg, 



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water, and not worrying to get through the ice into the Sound 

 beneath. 



Later in the day a wandering Emperor was led in by a 

 strap round his neck, and I held his wings while Dr. Bill 

 pithed him by a lancet in the brain. 



" The last bunk has been added by Oates. He brought 

 in some boards from the stables — not needed now owing to 

 the decease of the six ponies — and has built an erection which 

 presumably satisfies him. We all remark that it is only held 

 up by a small plank nailed to Bowers' bunk ; but Oates is 

 quite imperturbable as usual, and no whit disturbed by 

 ribald remarks as to a ' deadfall ' trap baited with oats." 



I had been reading Cherry's set of Kipling, and there 

 was such a clatter of talk from our rivals across the hut that 

 I publicly christened them the Banderlog. Birdie retaliated 

 by criticizing my pronunciation ; but I said I had no objection 



