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copper to salmon pink; bergs and pack to the north had 
a pale greenish hue with deep purple shadows, the sky 
shaded to saffron and pale green. We gazed long at these 
beautiful effects.” ! 
But this was not always so. There was one day with 
rain, there were days of snow and hail and cold wet slush, 
and fog. ‘‘The position to-night is very cheerless. All 
hope that this easterly wind will open the pack seems to 
have vanished. We are surrounded with compacted floes 
of immense area. Openings appear between these floes 
and we slide crab-like from one to another with long delays 
between. It is difficult to keep hope alive. There are 
streaks of water sky over open leads to the north, but every- 
where to the south we have the uniform white sky. The 
day has been overcast and the wind force 3 to 5 from the 
E.N.E.—snow has fallen from time to time. There could 
scarcely be a more dreary prospect for the eye to rest 
upon.” ? 
With the open water we left behind the albatross and 
the Cape pigeon which had accompanied us lately for many 
months. In their place we found the Antarctic petrel, ‘“‘a 
richly piebald bird that appeared to be almost black and 
white against the ice floes,’’? and the Snowy petrel, of 
which | have already spoken. 
No one of us whose privilege it was to be there will 
forget our first sight of the penguins, our first meal of seal 
meat, or that first big berg along which we coasted close 
in order that London might see it on the film. Hardly had 
we reached the thick pack, which prevailed after the 
suburbs had been passed, when we saw the little Adélie 
penguins hurrying to meet us. Great Scott, they seemed to 
say, what’s this, and soon we could hear the cry which we 
shall never forget. “‘Aark, aark,” they said, and full of 
wonder and curiosity, and perhaps a little out of breath, 
they stopped every now and then to express their feelings, 
“and to gaze and cry in wonder to their companions ; now 
walking along the edge of a floe in search of a narrow spot 
_ to jump and so avoid the water, and with head down and 
1 Scote’s Last Expedition, vol. i. p. 25. 2 Ibid. p. 60. 3 Wilson. 
