456 Canadian Record of Science. 
It is to be observed that no land lies south of Mac- 
quarrie Island in this region until the ice-bound antarctic 
land discovered by Ross is reached. A spot marked 
as Emerald Island on the maps has no existence, uor 
has Royal Company Island, south of Tasmania. Vessels, 
however, on the homeward voyage are occasionally driven 
to Dougherty Island, between New Zealand and Cape Horn, 
and there it is asserted seals are seen in large numbers. 
Presumably the seals go south to the ice in summer, as 
they are not then seen at the various islands. The penguins, 
however, must go south in winter, as they are seen at the 
islands in enormous numbers in summer and are absent in 
winter. The extremely limited extent of the land below 
the ice line no doubt contributed to the ultimate destruc- 
tion of the seals of Macquarrie Island. 
Antipodes Island, discovered by Pendleton in 1800, a 
solitary mountainous island surrounded by steep cliffs and 
only three miles in length and breadth, was also the home 
of numerous seals. It is known that it was formerly visited 
by sealers. A man who spent six months there some years 
since, obtained no seals. Captain Fairchild has never seen 
seals there, but the recent open season led to its being 
visited with some result. 
Bounty Islands, discovered by Captain Bligh on the out- 
ward voyage of the Bounty in !788, form a small group of 
rocky islands quite without herbage or water and covered 
with enormous numbers of sea-birds. This group was a 
famous sealing ground. A sealing party remained here five 
months in charge of the once famous Maori chief Duaterra, 
about 1807. Their stay in this desolate spot was unduly 
prolonged and two Europeans and one Tahitian died of the 
privations to which they were subjected. They, however, 
took 8,000 skins. It is evident that numerous other parties 
of whose doings there is no record visited this place, which 
even during the late open season seems to have yielded 
some hundreds of seals, though the total area of rocky sur- 
face is not much more than 100 acres. I saw no seals when 
I visited these rocks a few years since, but the enormous 
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