6 Sonf/icrfi Cross. 



|.ii.l«l.I.' Ihttt on tlif pack, in January and February, tliey are safe 



; ihrir iMuiinirs. whoi'ver they lie. It may be that food is then so 

 .ii.uuilanl that ihore is no need to leave the pack for the purpose 

 of obtaining; it, and so the Seills escape exi)0sure to the attacks 

 of their enemies. It may be that those enemies are migratory, 

 (US the KiUer is sjiid to be, and liave already betaken themselves 

 10 other rcj,'ions. At all events the subject is well worthy of 

 further attention. 



r.e-ide-s his account of the scars observed on the Seals, Mr. Bull's 

 most interestinj,' statement is (for a naturalist) that, while all four 

 v- wore observed in the pack, they were evidently in no great 



hi. ..,...;.>. The whole catch, in fact, reached only 180 skins. 



dipt. C. A. Liir.sen, of the Norwegian whaler ' Jason,' has given us 

 a few notes * a.s tlie result of his visits to the regions east of Graham 

 Lind in 1892-93 and 1893-94. At some places Seals (the species 

 not 8|>eeified) were found in enormous numbers, especially in 

 h»calitii>s " where there were plenty of small fishes and shrimps." 

 (hie hundred and twenty-five Fiskcrcl killed on December 1st, 1893, 

 are fl«-scribed as being " very big and fat." On December 11th near 

 Chri.stensen Lsland, "the Seals lay in places so closely packed that 

 we had to make circles in order to advance. It was a delio'htful 

 »\\!S\i to see tho.se masses of animals, most of which proved to be 

 yoiin-^'sters of the Fiskct'cl, which already had changed hair; they 

 wen* U'autifuUy fed, and looked like so many balls. Here and there 

 an old animal was amidst the youngsters. The Seals were not a bit 

 afraid of us ; on the contrary, they stretched their flippers towards 

 us as wc pelted them. . . . There must have been here abundant 

 f.w.l f..r ilie Seals, as the ice was everywhere strewn with fishes and 

 I .-.•». When I opened their stomachs, I saw them filled with 



a linh which has a white flesh, and which we call at home Kvitting 

 (Whiting,'), and also with sharp bones." 



Like other e.xplorere, Capt. Larsen sometimes found dead Seals. 



" In one of the valleys," near Cape Seymour, Louis Philippe Land, 



• ' ' ^ Is were seen, one of wliich was almost petrified, 



M.:i> Mrinrd to have come oidy recently; and there were 



-, " ^^''-''h the fat still contained some streaks of blood." 



I»r. ! •:,. th(> naturalist of tlie ' Uclyica,' has also published 



ling observations on the Seals which he 



■ in the pack-ice in the neighbourhood of Palmer Land 



III the »nnie n-jjion. These will be recorded under the heading of 



^ inoil, vnl. iii.. .Iaiiii;uy-.Juno 1H\H, jip. 239-33*): 



