ADELIE PENGUINS 



up and down close under the ice-foot, shooting at 

 the sea-leopards with a rifle when we saw their 

 heads above water. 



One day we had an interesting little adventure. 

 We had shot and killed one, a fine bull about ten feet 

 long, which had sunk to the bottom in some five 

 fathoms. Having just pulled away from him, we 

 were about ten yards from the ice-foot, when another 

 very large sea-leopard overtook us, swimming from 

 the direction of the dead bull. It passed under the 

 pram, bumping against the keel in doing so. 

 When about ten yards ahead of us it turned 

 and made straight back for us, but as we were 

 bows-on to it, it came right alongside the boat, 

 churning up the water and wetting us. At this 

 moment it turned on its side, its right fore- flipper 

 beating the surface and its belly towards us, and 

 was just starting to rear its head up when we both 

 lunged at it with our paddles, and so pushed the 

 little boat away from it. This brought us alongside 

 the ice-foot, from which Campbell got a shot at it 

 half a minute later, and wounded it in the neck. 

 The moment after we lunged at it with our paddles 

 it dived, then reappeared ten or fifteen yards off, 

 rearing its head out of the water, and it was at this 

 moment that Campbell shot it. After this it 

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