Gough^ Kerguelen^ and South Georgia Islands. 467 



French Bay. 



Dec. 13th. Grot 2 albatross eggs [D. exulans]. 



" 14th. Got 46 albatross eggs. 



" 15th. There were more albatross eggs got to-day. 



" 16th. Got 43 albatross eggs. The birds are very plentiful at this part of the 

 island. 



" 20th. The men got about 12 dozen albatross eggs. 



" 23rd. Got a large number of eggs. 



" 27th. The men got a large number of eggs. To-day I packed 9 eggs in salt in 



a keg to take home. The coal is about all gone and the cook burns 



the leopard skins. 

 1886. 



Yenture Bay. 



Jan. 2ud. Killed 6 leopards and got a number of eggs (albatross). Up to the 



present time we have killed 123 leopards and 2 elephants making 



about 60 barrels of oil. 



" 4th. Got a large number of eggs. 



Voyage to Kerguelen and Gough Island. 



1887. KERGUELEN ISLAND. 



Sprightly Bay. 



Nov. 30th. Killed 36 elephants.* 



Sprightly Bay. 



Dec, 13th. Went with the steward hunting after ducks [Querquedula eatoni] and 



got 10. 

 Triangle Bay. 

 Dec. 15th, This afternoon went gunning with the steward ; got 17 ducks. 



1888. 

 Triangle Bay. 

 Jan. 2nd. Have finished boiling out and. have everything full, about 500 bbls [of 



oil]. 

 Pot Harbor, 



Jan. 7th. Got a few rabbits.f 

 Norton's Harbor. 



Jan. 9th. In the afternoon went after rabbits and all hands got about 50. 

 Carrol's Cove. 

 Jan. 23rd. Got some cabbage [Pringlea anfiscorbutica] and penguins. The mate shot 



22 ducks. 

 " 28th. Got one king penguin [Aptenodytes longirostris], 

 Christmas Harbor. 

 Jan. 30th. Got a few rabbits and a few ducks. 



* This is the largest number he speaks of killing in any one day during this 

 voyage, but on a former voyage, to this island, in the scliooner " Charles Colgate," in 

 in 1883, they killed 100 on one day, over 50 on several days, and in about ten weeks 

 (Oct. 4 to Dec. I4th) took 1084 elephants, making 1111 bbls of oil. 



f Probably the European rabbit {L. cuniculus)^ introduced. (See Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus,, No. 3, p. 38). 



