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yet pup|>ed. Tin- pup- iiiv I.. -inning U) take the water. I saw one go down a seal 

 hole and remain in tin- water - \, r.il minute-, l.ui \i-il. le all the time, and occasionally 

 putting it- no-e u]> to luvat he. On coming up it moved toward- it- mother, who 

 -li-i-piii.u' " tew yard- away, and she greeted it atle.-t innately with a ruli of lier nose. The 

 woolU "-at was -till on the pup and showed no signs of coming oft' yet. Many of the 

 pu; to U- seen |>Ia\ m.u \\itli the mother, the pup using mostly its fore-flippers, 



tin- mot her ii-ini: eliietly her head, hut no attempted destruction of young or any 

 approaeh to it could U- seen in any ease. We saw two pups left by their mothers who 

 \\ ere proliaMv a\\ay fishing. The pups were asleep, but one appeared to be teething, and 

 on waking up began to rub its gums repeatedly on the hard snow. 



Two gentoos eaptured coming from the south ward. 



Oct. 4th. Snowy petrels and gulls seen to-day. 



Oct. 5th. Snowy petrels and gulls were the only birds seen to-day. The captain 

 saw a seal on the floe half way to Point Davis near an old trap-hole ; but as it was seen 

 from the mast-head, the sex could hardly be determined ; no young was visible. 



The trap in 13 fathoms on the port bow was raised and contained two fish, one 

 but-kie, two isopods, 156 cushion-stars and about twelve amphipods, one of which 

 had four arms. A seal skeleton down a week was hauled up this afternoon. On it were 

 eighteen cushion -stars, one of which had an arm undeveloped, and three fishes. 



The baby seal, having died, was skinned and the brain removed and preserved, but 

 the latter was very soft and is not in good condition. 



Oct. 6th. Snowies, black-backed gulls and a nelly were seen to-day. 



Oct. 7th. There is open water to the south and the penguins are arriving in the bay. 

 1 spent the day round about Point Martin surveying, and found over forty black- 

 throated penguins about there, some in flocks and some singly. Most of them were 

 climbing up the rocks into old rookeries as if they had come to stay. They were all 

 plump and in very fine condition. They travelled quickly from the water to the 

 rookeries, and I saw two different flocks moving on their bellies at full speed. The seals 

 seemed disinclined to meddle with them, and even one thrown at a seal was untouched, 

 although it stood afterwards for several minutes within a few feet and easy reach of the 

 seal. We then put it down a seal hole and drove the seal in after it. The seal did not 

 reappear while we were there but the penguin soon came on to the ice again. 1 



The seals have apparently all pupped now and the young are growing quickly. 

 We saw two males on the ice, and they showed the wonted laziness and good nature of 

 the Weddell seal, never showing any resentment at being worried and proded with 

 sticks. One of these males was at an old trap-hole, some 300 yards from the land, and 

 near him was a dead black-throated penguin, picked almost clean by the gulls. The 

 head was 100 yards from the body, and from the uninjured condition of the skeleton 

 the penguin can hardly have been killed by the seal. Unless he met his death from 

 <li-ease, he mu-t have been killed by the gulls, for the cold lately has not been nearly 



1 It teems improbable that Weddell seals ever prey on penguins. 



