122 Soiitlicni Cross. 



p. li)S). In November Mr. Bernacchi Avrites (p. 222) :— " Flocks of 

 tljousiuuls of Peii-^Miins now toddled to and fro between the shore and 

 the water, those arrivinj,' grimy and sordid in appearance, and those 

 returning' neat, clean, and glossy. Thousands were standing along 

 the edgtTof the ice, ready to take their plunge into the brine, l>ut 

 hesitathig like children. As soon as one plunged in, all followed in 

 rai)id succession. Others, again, were sporting about in the water, 

 enjoying themselves immensely— racing along and leaping out like 

 I )nlpliins ; by the uninitiated they might have been easily mistaken for 







ARRIVAL OF THE ADELIA PEKGUINS IN THE SPRING. 

 {^lUj i^trmiisian of Sir George Newnes, Bart.') 



such. As soon as they tired of their frolics, they all leapt up again on to 

 the ice, and then no amount of persuasion would induce them to enter 

 again. In this respect, as indeed in all, they were most obstinate." 



Mr. lUill in the ' Antarctic ' landed on the Possession Islands on the 

 l«»th of diinuary, 1895 (.svf ' Cruise of the ''Antarctic," ' p. 172). He 

 writtis : — " Tliousands of Penguins could be seen from the deck to 

 occu])y nearly the whole extent of one of the islands. We found the 

 colony as it no doubt appeared in 1840 to Sir James Pioss and ]iis party, 

 the foundation ccmsisting of an extensive heap of guano mixed with 

 jicbbles and bones of Penguins, carried oil' by a natural or a violent 

 deatlj, chiefly the latter, as the numerous predatory Skua-Gulls look 



