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Soiifhcru Cross. 



I Imvo not put much f.iitli in tliis loport, but to-day I actually saw it 

 inysrlf. Tin- scatiid mate and 1 had this morning gone after a Seal. I 

 liml an explosive hullet into its head, so that the entire skull was 

 »niJtshe<l, unci, in consequence, there could be no question of life or con- 

 sriousnt'ss remaining in it. Yet, while the mate was skinning it, it kept 

 niovini,' all tlie time ; and, at la.st, when it was more than half skinned, 

 untl even the two fore-tlippers with their large arteries were cut off from 

 the ImkIv, it jumj)ed so high that it was perfectly clear off the ice. 



Fchnuirtj '2ii'/. — No Penguins seen to-day and very few of any otlier 

 birds. The Doctor killed his first Seal to-day, and I killed two, all of the 

 common kind. 



Fihntiirii 'Srd. — Still lying hard-and-fast in the ice. Fine weather. The 

 whole forencM»n I was away to the north, far away from the ship, looking 

 for Seals. I killed three. One was a male of the thick-necked species, 



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ADELIA PENGUINS ON THE ICE. 

 (liy jKfmitsion oj Sir George Neiones, Bart.) 



which, like the last I killed, lay far out iu the middle of a large floe. He 

 had gut his new fur, and was the finest I have got as yet. The stomach 

 wius quite full of food, consisting solely of Octopus. After supper, I was 

 out in an opening in the ice and dragged with my Plankton-net, but got 

 ncjthing, neither animals nor plants. 



FehriKiry G//t.— Caught the first young Penguin of the smaller species. 

 It was nearly full grown. Saw a number of Penguins to-day. This 

 afteinoon we caught one of the Emperors. !My bag to-day was two 

 common Seals, and two Silver Petrels. One of the Seals swam near the 

 ship. His stomach was full of shrimps. It was a young male. 



F'hrnary 1th. — Before we left the place where we had been moored last 

 night, the .second mate and two f)f the crew killed a Seal and two small 

 I'enguins. These last wen; moulting, and were found in holes in a large 

 humm«»ck, where they had apparently sought refuge for some time. The 

 meu also found other holes, full of feathers and droppings, where Penguins 



