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upon the colony as a private and inexhaustible larder, from which 

 they draw their supplies in the form of young Penguins, with the 

 utmost insolence and contempt for parental feelings. The myriads 

 of colonists are drilled to the same degree of perfection whicli 

 excited our w^onder in other Penguin's rookeries. In spite of their 

 bewildering numliers, all their functions of life ashore are carried out 

 with a perfect absence of confusion ; the only scenes of disorder are 

 caused by an occasional attack from Skua-Gulls, when the old ones 

 are ' played ' by some of the robbers, whilst others quietly haul away 



ADELIA PENGUINS NESTING ON CAPE ADARE. 

 (^By permission of Sir George Newnes, Bart.) 



and despatch the screaming youngsters with a few savage pecks from 

 their powerful bills." Mr. Bull also mentions having seen another 

 colony on a beach off Cape Hallett (p. 175), 



Mr. Bull (p. 181) describes the landing of himself, with the 

 captain and second mate of the 'Antarctic,' and Mr. Borchgrevink, on 

 the pebbly beach at Cape Adare in 1895. He writes (p. 181) : — " The 

 sensation of being the first men who had set foot on the real Antarctic 

 mainland was both strange and pleasurable. ... To commemorate 

 our landing, a pole was erected, carrying a box on which was painted 

 the Norwegian colours, the date, and the vessel's name. . . . 



" Our surroundings and our hosts were as strange and unique as 



