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tlirouj;h his ribs. This slopjicd liim, .-md to make quite suro of him T sent 

 two liull.'ts thniu^h his head. The sliip was steered towards him, and we 

 m»t hill) on Ixmrd. Tt was a line young Leopard-Seal. Like the one 

 Ut»rohgrpvink kiUed, his stomach was full of small shrimps. When the 

 CHptiiinrHiiifdown from (he mast-head, he told me that he had seen a Seal 

 lit s..me distanc-e from the ship. As the vessel was now lying fast in the ice 

 again, the Cai)tain, Fougner and I .set out on " Shi " for that Seal. Fougner 

 was armed with a seal-pick, and I with an old needle-gun. After looking 

 alM.iit for some time, we found the Seal near a large hummock, where I 

 "kilh'd him with two bullets. It was a large male of the White Seal. His 

 .stomach was quite empty. I have also to-day shot four Cape Pigeons and 

 sixteen Ice Petrels. 



January ")//*. — I was called at 7.30 a.m. to kill a Seal, It was a large 

 specimen of the common White Seal. While I was on the ice later in the 

 day, I .saw a hirge white bird with a few black spots flying out of range. 

 It was presumably one of the .same kind that I saw at sea on the 30th of 

 October last year. Borchgrevink called it Procellaria giyantea. To-day 

 I bagged eight Ice-Petrels. 



Jaiiiiarii GOi. — When we stopped to-day, four Seals were seen on the 

 ice. Boiciigrevink, Colbeck, Bernacchi and I went in one of the small 

 canvas boats tt) shoot two which were lying some distance off on the star- 

 IxKird side among some small hummocks. In order not to spoil the 

 cranium, which I wanted for the collection, I fired a shot into the ribs of 

 one of the Seals, but he appeared to be as lively as ever, so I had to give 

 him a ball in the neck, which settled him. The skin of this Seal was like 

 that of all the others I had shot as i-egards colour ; but when I skeleton- 

 i.sed the cranium, I found that the latter was quite different from those 

 we had caught before, and it may be that I have obtained a very rare 

 species. I cannot find a name for it in any of my books. Later in the 

 day I shot a Giant Petrel. 



Jiinunni )<th. — Fougner and I went out on " Shi" to shoot an Emperor 

 Penguin, but he went into the water before 1 came within range. Saw 

 some Mutton-birds while I was away. At 3 P.M. the Captain came down 

 from the mast-head and told me that he had seen two Seals on the ice 

 al)Out a couple of English miles astern of the ship. I went with him up 

 t() the maintop to get the bearings of the place where the Seals lay. The 

 secoixl mate had also seen them from the mast-head, and he wanted to go 

 with me. We were in all seven men, who set out armed with seal-picks. 

 I was the only one who earned a gun. The ice was very bad, and we had 

 not gone far before the second mate fell through a hole and got soaked, 

 for he had no "Shi." We, who had " Shi," fared better, although in some 

 places we slid along only on a thick layer of snow-slush, so we had to move 

 quickly in order not to sink through. We had not gone far before I 

 thought that we were going in a wrong direction according to my bearings, 

 but thinking that the second mate had a better idea of the locality than 

 myself, I said nothing, ^\■hen, however, we were stopped by an open lane 

 of water, and as my three English companions were now fagged out and 

 wanUid to return to the ship, I set out on my own account to find the 

 S«'ftls. I had not gone far before I saw them lying by a lai'ge hummock. 

 ^yhen I came within range I found that there were three large White 

 Seals, iiist<-ad (»f two. Three shots tired in as many seconds laid them low. 



