I02 Soutlioni Cross. 



llir skill w<- bruuiilit lioiiif nn-asui-fd ciLchl feet fivt- ;iii(l ;i li;ilf iiiclics 

 ill l.-n^'th ami six fci-t rouiid lifliiiul the fort- fliitpcrs. 



.]»nc 1 I/A. Notliin/; to do and notliiiij,' done. Wt; intfnded to take 

 a irip t«» tin- i«clHTU wlicii' on tlio Otli saw so many Seals, to look 

 f(»r soinr ad<litioii to my rolhrtion ; l)ut the sky lias not liccn so rlcar 

 in till- middle of the day that we could ^'o without lanterns, and under 

 surh eireumstances the chances for collcH-tini,' anythini,' were very small. 

 We therefore decided to put oil' the trip to a more favourable day. 

 J hoiM- it will not lie for lonu, for the want of havinj,' soniethin.i,' to do often 

 iK'comc.'^ v«'ry depre.ssinir. 



June \~ih. Colheck saw a PmjixJroma uivea this morning. It came 

 cl«»s<' to him when he was reading off the thermometers. 



June 'l\th. — Four of us went for a walk on the ice lookiiig for Seal for 

 fiMMl f»»r the dogs. Fortune favoured us, and we killed three large 

 animals. The only thing of zoological interest on this trip was that we 

 oliserved an immense number of Lcptomjchotes. Those we killed were two 

 males and one female. Strangely enough this last had no embryo, 

 although it was a full-grown animal. 



June 2!<th. — Went out for a walk and to look for Seals and specimens 

 f«ir the collection. Everywhere on the ice we found " blow-holes," but 

 the Seals were all driven into the water by the number of dogs which, 

 much against our wish, accompanied us and coui'sed all over the ice. I 

 can note ius a fact of zoological interest that we found several " Seal 

 caves" in the ice, where the Seal crawls in when the ice and weather 

 is such that they do not care to be exposed to it. By the iceberg where 

 I before killed the White Seal there were also now a number of Seals, 

 but they all kept under the ice, so I got none. 



June '.iOth. — On the ice I found by the same hole I passed yesterday a 

 large Seal, and to judge by its circumference, it appeared to be worth 

 including in my collection ; when I returned to camp I therefore sent Ole 

 away to kill it. He brought me an embryo about two feet long, which 

 was well developed, and appeared to be more than half grown. To judge by 

 the embryos I have now collected, the pairing season should be February 

 and the breeding season Septendjer. The placenta, which in the Seals 

 lies like a belt round the embryo was, in the one I got to-day, seven inches 

 broad. The Seal was a Lcptoujiclintes wcddeUi. 



July fyfli. To-day we killeil two large Weddell's Seals, male and 

 female, but there was no embryo in this last. They were uncommonly 

 fat, with five to six inches of l)lubber where it was thickest. 



July l')th. — Alongside of this iceberg there was a large seal-hole 

 where we til)serve(l .some Seals, both Lobodon and Lfptonycliofes. Some of 

 them were very large animals. To judge from the different colouring of 

 the hair, I l)elieve I saw White Seals in three stages of fur. The ct)lour 

 varied mm greyish-brown, with darker spots on the fore and hind parts. 

 The apparently oldest of them was dazzling wliite, without spots. This 

 last, which was the only one of its colour in this hole, was an uncommonly 

 large animal. 



July 17/A.— The Finns killed a large female Leptonycliotes, without 

 etnbryo. 



July l.Wil. l-'rom his trip Borchgrevink brought back with him a 

 cranium of Lohudon. which they killed last night. 



