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  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  GEOGRAPHIC 
  MAGAZINE 
  

  

  A 
  YOUNG 
  SKA-ELKPHANT 
  TAKING 
  TO 
  THI-, 
  WATlyR 
  

  

  science 
  is 
  indebted 
  for 
  its 
  most 
  important 
  

   information 
  in 
  tbe 
  various 
  domains 
  of 
  

   natural 
  history. 
  

  

  Notwithstanding 
  the 
  researches 
  of 
  tbe 
  

   scientific 
  expeditions 
  referred 
  to, 
  and 
  of 
  

   several 
  individual 
  workers, 
  there 
  remain 
  

   many 
  fields 
  awaiting- 
  study 
  at 
  this 
  sub- 
  

   antarctic 
  isle. 
  Like 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  

   austral 
  islands, 
  South 
  Georgia 
  has 
  not 
  yet 
  

   been 
  correctly 
  charted. 
  The 
  altitudes 
  of 
  

   its 
  mountains 
  are 
  still 
  unknown; 
  only 
  two 
  

   species 
  of 
  fossils 
  have 
  thus 
  far 
  been 
  un- 
  

   earthed 
  from 
  its 
  hills; 
  we 
  have 
  merely 
  

   fragmentary 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  life 
  histories 
  

   of 
  most 
  of 
  its 
  vertebrated 
  animals; 
  the 
  

   scope 
  of 
  its 
  botany, 
  particularly 
  the 
  cryp- 
  

  

  togamic 
  botany, 
  has 
  certainly 
  not 
  been 
  

   exhausted, 
  and 
  the 
  teeming 
  marine 
  life, 
  

   both 
  plant 
  and 
  animal, 
  is 
  practically 
  a 
  vol- 
  

   ume 
  with 
  uncut 
  leaves. 
  

  

  My 
  trip 
  to 
  South 
  Georgia 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  

   the 
  manner 
  of 
  the 
  pioneers, 
  for 
  I 
  was 
  

   away 
  a 
  full 
  year 
  on 
  the 
  old 
  New 
  Bedford 
  

   whaling 
  brig 
  Daisy, 
  B. 
  D. 
  Cleveland, 
  

   master. 
  We 
  "made 
  the 
  land" 
  at 
  the 
  mid- 
  

   dle 
  of 
  the 
  northwest 
  coast 
  late 
  one 
  No- 
  

   vember, 
  and 
  next 
  day 
  we 
  were 
  towed 
  by 
  

   a 
  whaling 
  steamer 
  into 
  Cumberland 
  Bay, 
  

   where 
  the 
  Daisy 
  lay 
  at 
  anchor 
  until 
  mid 
  

   I 
  )ecember. 
  

  

  During 
  this 
  visit 
  I 
  enjoyed 
  the 
  unfail- 
  

   ing 
  hospitality 
  of 
  the 
  Norwegian 
  ex- 
  

  

  